A Dead Good Blog

  We spend the chilly, dreary, dark days of winter hoping we get a decent summer, and then when it comes it can be too much. Luckily, here i...

Spring has sprung (sort of). It’s still freezing here in St Anne’s! Hopefully warmer days are coming. This poem was inspired by a young ...

It is supposed that all poets like to write about flowers, even bad ones  - flowers that is, not poets. As Saturday's Dead Good Blog p...

At last, the long awaited hint of spring sunshine is here. I don’t care that it shows up how much my windows need cleaning or draws a...

I love Spring. Not too hot, not too cold, it brings hope, beauty and the Sun, which in turn gives us some much needed Vitamin D after months...

Today is my birthday. It is also the first day of spring and so I thought, rather than getting all depressed in a blog post about being...

As I walked my little chimps to school this morning I looked around me at the gardens bursting into life and pondered a bit. Then ...

A guest post by David Riley What’s the best poetry about spring? I’ll tell you, it’s my job to pontificate. It’s when humans are, a...

Words seemed keen to demostrate their mood-altering prowess to me yesterday.  While waiting to brew up in the staff room, I asked a colleagu...

by Ashley Lister As has been noted, there has been a confrontational quality to my writing over the past few weeks. This has been no...

Today is the vernal equinox. Finally we can say goodbye to winter. Goodbye to knitted hats and adult mittens. Goodbye to the SAD lights ...