Stuart Miller-Osborne

When I moved into my flat I found a Gauguin poster Hanging from a bare wall Honorée was my girlfriend At this troubled time in my life I had just lost my adored mother And in an effort sooth the pain I often asked her to strike A similar pose on my bed I imagined…

I feel dead at the moment My spirits are very low It is a predictable season

Areopagitica is a 1644 prose polemic by the English poet, scholar, and polemical author John Milton opposing the 1643 Licencing Order which had re-introduced censorship of books during the First English Civil War  Areopagitica is among history’s most influential and impassioned philosophical defences of the principle of a right to freedom of speech and expression Many of its expressed principles have…

From the window of my cell I can see the hillside cars Going up and then returning From the summit of Kolas Pan I have no bars on the windows Nor is my door securely locked One of my guards has been very kind John Milton’s Areopagitica was my gift

It had rained overnight The air was still humid There was not even The gift of a light breeze

As the zero year drew to a close I chose to sit in a thinning field Of late sunflowers

This is the only day Of the week When I smile And really mean it As I am seriously happy I am nice to my colleagues And polite on the tubes People do not annoy me I wish that all the other days Were similar in their structure Francis

This part of the year always puzzles me The trees are already changing colour Yet I still wear very little in my apartment However during the long dark nights I hide in my bed and enjoy hot drinks Mahtilde loves autumn but not winter

Sephine I trust you are not missing me I always miss you Joe I will be back in a few days You have a mountain of mail It will wait As Josie might have told you I am on the Hue leg of my journey Earlier I visited the car which was driven By Quang…

Where are you Joe I am in Hue Is that a garage No There is car in the parking space It is not a garage Josie This is where the car driven by Quảng Đức Towards his ghastly self-immolation Is on permanent display as a relic of the past It can be seen in the…