Author Archives: Dick Jones

There is much current publicity about mental health and the difficulties experienced both by those struggling with various deeply troubling conditions and those practitioners attempting with difficulty to establish parity of status for their problems alongside issues of physical health. … Continue reading →

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NO HOME BUT THE STRUGGLE Solomon Reményi: 1919 – 2017 You tread the edge of this bright world gingerly, unsteadily as if for you it lay in shadow. Old red heat grown dull in the world still glows in you: … Continue reading →

NO HOME BUT THE STRUGGLE Solomon Reményi: 1919 – 2017 You tread the edge of this bright world gingerly, unsteadily as if for you it lay in shadow. Old red heat grown dull in the world still glows in you: … Continue reading →

Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes. BERTOLD BRECHT We can’t all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by. WILL ROGERS Il n’y a pas de grand homme pour … Continue reading →

Back in the days when blogs ruled the earth – well, when they constituted pretty much the sole medium of digital interaction – it used to matter to me greatly that I was reaching out to a regular and reasonably … Continue reading →

Back when I was studying for my A-levels, in an English lesson studying King Lear a fellow student took issue with what he perceived as the play’s relentless misery and suffering, my English teacher, Brian Merrikin Hill (an extraordinary man … Continue reading →

I am old enough to see how little I have done in so much time, and how much I have to do in so little. Sheila Kaye-Smith (one of my mother’s favourite novelists).    [We] get to think of life … Continue reading →

Some years ago a friend sent me the following extract from the Editor’s Letter in the then new Canadian arts magazine Hobo.  It struck me as an unusually thoughtful and eloquent meditation on a subject of fundamental importance in any … Continue reading →