Stuart Miller-Osborne

Music from a Corrective Institution (One) When playing the Vienna Board in my tiny cell I think of you swimming naked in the sea From my vantage on the wooden jetty I can see the door that imprisons me   Music from a Corrective Institution (Two) When playing the Vienna Board in my tiny cell […]

The minesweeper moved with difficulty through the churning black waters of the channel and was occasionally hit by rouge waves which caused the ship to shake violently Roberts looked landwards wishing that he was in a warm bed and counted the lights on the far off Kent coast Go, go south young man Away from […]

The Chronicles of Anna Magdalena Bach On the 28th of June 2008 (2) Violet Few was walking through St James’s Park. She was returning home from the cinema where she had watched The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach for the third time. It was a film that she loved and when it was showing she […]

Working hard in the beastmirefields Until our hands are sore and sore Filled up with the supsleepsoup My sisters return for moreandmore   This anonymous poem was found written onto the plaster of partially demolished cottage by the author’s father in 1962. The Oxfordshire cottage was known to have housed members of the Women’s Land […]

As a bleakman searched for used cigarettes a nearnaked mermaid watched the river flow by and counted her many ambitions   A statue of a mermaid is situated not far from the bridge over the River Thames in Henley on Thames in Oxfordshire. The statue is called Amaryllis.      

In the summer of 1928 John Trevelyan visited Thetford in Norfolk originally to study the many churches in the area. During his travels he became acquainted with a Martin Simon Flood the son of The Reverend Robert Flood who was the vicar of St Cuthbert’s Church in Thetford between 1861 and 1879. His son noted […]

Between the January and October of 1929 John Trevelyan and his wife Margot rented a small cottage near Portleven The poet kept a detailed diary of his visit which often included short poems and other observations The Unnamed Sailors The unnamed sailors Rest in the long grasses Not far from the cliff face A short […]

Was of a medium size and held together by a sturdy steel frame. It was covered in soft black synthetic leather and had his initials ABC displayed in gold relief. This was his retirement present from his colleagues after forty years on the force and as history records played a large part in The Case […]

Stroketh and his girlfriend BunnyJaneBunny had packed ham sandwiches and a ginger beer milkshake for their day out They were going to visit the Museum of Modern Art where BunnyJaneBunny was to model for Yves Klein Stroketh was wearing a sober brown suit with a yellow tie BunnyJaneBunny was wearing a dress of many colours […]

You may have closed your doors to me now Your industry quiet But the toil of your former years Still hangs heavily in the air   From Travels in the Cotswolds by John Trevelyan (1932)