StationsFrom tigers in a South London suburb to retired Victorian police inspectors investigating train based thefts, from collectors of poets at Shadwell to life changing decisions in Canonbury, by way of an art installation that defies the boundaries of a gallery, Stations takes a sideways look through the windows of the Overground train, at life as it is, or might be, lived beside the rails: quirky, humorous and sometimes horrifying.

No need to answer

but touching in its honesty and openness

ignored or worse

Following in the footsteps of Julio Cortázar and a certain literary tradition of sinister rooms (such as Dr Jekyll’s laboratory)

Donny seeks his fortune in Cameron’s Britain

and Thomas Kinsella and edited the ground-breaking anthology Irish Poetry After Yeats

but to share and take it out into the world through collaboration

and a remarkable series of letters in verse to Pablo Neruda

and how she did

how words and writing can be used for good

comic and sometimes absurdist these columns focus directly or indirectly on the Covid-19 phenomenon

George Lamming was born in Barbados in 1927