Some news! I have a new book of poems for children coming out in a couple of months – Let Sleeping Cats Lie. It’s a collection of poems about pets (dogs, cats, goldfish, chinchilla, guinea pigs, snakes, budgies, rabbits, blue whales etc). I say it’s for children but it’s also suitable for grandchildren and, who…
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John Mitchinson explores how a 600-year-old poem by an unknown poet can reset our moral compass
As we encounter Shakespeare’s tragedies it becomes terrifyingly clear that we are not in a moral universe of comeuppances and rewarded virtues.
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