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Alfriston

  • Eden Again

    I caught a single piece of history A man assembling his thoughts like a Summer picnic You ran through the landscape like a chalkland stream Swimming bareclad through the jibs and jibes and jabbering You took photographs through the lens of your compassion And used words like needlepoint, stitching people into history Read more

  • How do you interview the 20th Century?

    Through a mutual friend the opportunity arose recently to interview in a kind of Desert Island (Denton Island?) Discs format, the former Chancellor and Deputy Prime Minister, Lord Denis Healey, who resides at Alfriston and is one of the dominant figures in Twentieth Century politics. Read more

  • Alfriston

    A poem about Alfriston, East Sussex for National Poetry Day, with apologies to Jim Webb and Glen Campbell. Read more