Currently a friend and I are attending a 3 week course, at Buckingham University, on Anglo Saxon Art. It is very interesting to any who seek to understand where we come from and how, despite living in what is termed ‘The Dark Ages’ the Anglo Saxons were skilled in so many areas.  ‘Borvo’ (my latest novel)  is set in the time of King Alfred the Great. Perhaps one of the most famous pieces of ‘art’ of the period is the Alfred Jewel, currenly in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. I have seen it a few times but always want to go back and have another look. Another brilliant place for such items is the British Museum in London. With a little imagination you can take yourself back to those times and at least partially understand the complex society they built.

Denny Bradbury

Thanks to all who have told me that you are enjoying Borvo. As a character he is rather special to me and it is really heartening to know that he has touched the hearts of many of you also.

I will write more in the next few days about Renga style poetry.  It is for sharing which makes it inclusive and reactive and therefore exciting.

Denny Bradbury

When my muse sits on my shoulder I often do not know where she will take me. The following is included in  ‘A Denagerie of Poems’. At times of uncertainty I find it sustaining, even though I wrote it some time ago, is that not the beauty of poetry, its timelessness?

As we walk through the shadows on the shore                                                                    we follow the life that we live                                                                                                  each shadow’s length reflects our painful journey                                                         with light and sun warming the pain                                                                                     until we stay with happiness once more

Our footsteps pounding on the broken floor                                                                       we walk in prose but think in rhyme                                                                            couplets flooding in to break the empty space                                                                    that is our thought’s resting place                                                                                            thus we are whole and dwell there evermore.

Denny Bradbury