In Boots Like These … Kendal Mountain Literature Festival Goes Virtual

Kendal Mountain Festival is a wonderful four day event in November that brings a much needed boost of colour and excitement to the town and has done for four decades. A tented basecamp village springs up overnight in the Brewery Arts Centre, the main arteries of Kirkland, Highgate and Stricklandgate throb with quilt jacketed bodies,…

One Step Beyond

Thoughts trapped in bubble wrap, as the wind becomes muffled and all progress stops. Two thirds so far and no farther; a shadow rigid against the render. Time frozen, like a seized up mechanism, as the aching in arches grows and calves spasm in protest. Panic rises with the pounding in a neck, with hands…

Quick October Update

An opportunity has arisen to write for The Yorkshire and Lancashire Times on the internet. The poetry blog entries I upload here on WordPress have attracted the attention of a group that publishes news, arts and literature features on the web and I have been asked to supply the occasional piece for circulation under their…

Life In The Third Person … On The Road To Samaria

On The Road To Samaria by Jonathan Humble In these shoes, I negotiate life in the third person; toes swathed in top quality calfskin, safe from random shit and shards, where neither grass nor paved path can sully these soft arches and soles. I wear these suits; an actor avoiding the fourth wall, costumed and…

Then it rains …

#MentalHealthAwareness #Depression #Poetry Then It Rains You ask on my behalf to rise and leave, to dress without the hindrance of bootlace worms returning at our feet. In vain we anticipate permission from spiders who watch in shadows, spinning webs that constrain all action. Standing, squatting, sitting, we are opposed, resisted. We are tangled marionettes,…