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Monday, 10 November 2025
Christmas Beetle - Gold In the Hand
One gold Christmas Beettle, one small gold Christmas Beettle, will this be it for the summer? Dear small golden thing, deceased, but still a beauty. The way it echoes the wedding ring, on the pinkish paw, makes it so much more than what might be the last Christmas Beettle I find.
Monday, 3 November 2025
The Ease of Eggs - An Example of Benjamin Dodds’ Excellent Oeuvre
Sometimes I write something about a book I like, and this is the case for Ben Dodd’s new book, The Ease of Eggs, for which I wrote what is called in the trade a puffery ( no puffins involved). And this is how I put it:
After reading The Ease of Eggs, you may well look up and find the world is more acutely interesting. this book is a buffet of poetic bon mots, a cabinet of the eclectic: school observations, the universe at large, men and gender, cinematic culture , science at work. But always we arrive at understanding and kindness: Dodd’s poetry is a quiet advocacy for a better world.
And it’s true.

