Borrowing the above phrase made famous by professional baseball player and undoubted sage Lawrence Peter ‘Yogi’ Berra, we do seem to have been here before. Back in March 2020, when news of the first coronavirus lockdown was sinking in and the UK came to a shuddering halt, I had been deep in preparations for an…
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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,…
In Boots Like These
My poem in the Through The Locking Glass anthology published by Inspired By Lakeland in response to the current coronavirus crisis.
Through The Locking Glass
I’ve just had notification that Through The Locking Glass has gone to print and will be out later in the summer. This is a publication in which my poem In Boots Like These appears, submitted in response to a call-out earlier in lockdown from local publishers Inspired By Lakeland, who have recently experienced the…
Sitting In A Semi
This poem has been reposted. It is about fifteen weeks since lockdown began and we are now in a phase of trying to re-introduce ourselves back to what was considered ‘normal’ before all the horribleness started. Thought it might be worth reminding myself about the early days of the pandemic … Sitting In A Semi…
Sitting In A Semi (after David Bowie)
Remote in a Cumbrian village, removed and adrift as instructed, I have become a modern Major Tom, floating with the tins and toilet rolls, bouncing off the ceiling, walls and floor. Behind glass, I message Planet Earth, well placed for views in virtual space, sitting in a semi, playing spot the Herdwick, clapping frontline health…
Jonathan Humble 