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A picture's worth a thousand words, they say - with this in mind I've put together a few photos of the house now done, and a few of the renovation work as it was going on (for hardcore DIY types only). This link will take you there. The house is pretty much finished, and it's been […]
Rainman
Rain ManBack from the Greek island of Chios and the crazy Rocket Battle which I wrote about and filmed here. Today is a classic North Wales day of wind and rain, one of those days when you can't see further than the end wall. The stream in the garden is swollen by the rain and […]

Above Greek Island Rocket War Film of the crazy goings-on on the isle of Chios

Below : From the John Wain site: John Wain talks about one of his favourite poems

Remarks on the short story
This transcription of an interview John Wain gave to the Journal of the Short Story in English first appeared in that publication in 1984. It has since appeared online in English on this French-language website . The short story is, of...Read more
Edward and Helen Thomas: from Professing Poetry
John Wain’s lecture on the story of Edward Thomas and Helen Thomas Given in 1976 during his tenure of the Professorship of Poetry at Oxford and collected in Professing Poetry (1978) Read the lecture in full here as a pdf

Primrose Hill in the 1950s – Will Wain meets Eugene Manzi
Pictured: Gaetano Manzi, 1920s – by kind permission of Eugene Manzi I met Eugene Manzi at one of Primrose Hill’s many patisserie/coffee shops, this one (or was it the place next door?) stocked with a minimalist display of startlingly coloured cupcakes. … Continue reading →