Author: William Oxley

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Sofia, Poetry

Numinous

The glass weeps in this window near Waterloo Station and cold hisses on rails that loop away to Surbiton or elsewhere. Nowhere so ugly as in rain, bedraggled bushes of town, buildings leaking and looking...

Sofia, Poetry

Spare Some Change?

The platform, pigeon-grey as all the others at King's Cross – that cathedral of journeys; and Gingham's tables and chairs, a spindly roped-off bistro space, a square retreat for drink and thought, the best form...

Sofia, Reviews

Viva la Vida

Cicely Herbert sees Paul at the National Theatre and a revival of Nathan the Wise at the Hampstead Theatre reviews These are intelligent, wide-ranging and, at times, passionate poems. Above all they are refreshingly serious...

Sofia, Reviews

William Oxley reviews Damnatio Memoriae

Denis Gildea reviews Happiness: Lessons from a New Science by Richard Layard Allen Lane. London. 2005. 310 pages. Hbk. £17.99. ISBN 0713997699 reviews sof 73 September 2005 22 Sebastian Barker has an exquisite ear for...

Sofia, Poetry

Two Nepal Poems: Sadhu; Kumari

David Paterson is the Chairman of SoF Steering Committee and a founder member of SoF Network. sof 71 May 2005 12 2 Nepal Poems Sadhu With scrip and scroll and begging bowl he moves among...