Five and a half hours at Heston West service station
is not, I suspect, everyone’s idea of fun;
Some Poetic thoughts on Resisting Tides
Some poets use tides as an image for that which is irresistible.
Alfred Lord Tennyson used the tides as an image for the irresistibility of death in Crossing the Bar (1889). He hoped for calmness in his last moments: “such a tide as moving seems asleep, too full for sound and foam”.
Meet the New Editors
General Editor: David Chapman My undergraduate degree was in physics, and I’ve sometimes said that if you scratch me, you’ll still find a physicist in there somewhere. My first job was as an electronics design engineer working in the telecommunications industry, but...