Pleased to have this ‘spectral’ collaboration with longtime friend and word/image collaborator Nick Dormand (artist & photographer).

With thanks to Melissa Lemay – see in full here:  https://collaborature.blogspot.com/2025/04/spectral-nd-mf.html

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On this day in 1945, Richard Strauss completed his ‘Metamorphosen’

Pleased to have a selection of my prose poems posted at talking about strawberries all of the time. My thanks to Malcolm Curtis.

You can read them here: https://talkingaboutstrawberries.blogspot.com/2025/04/mike-ferguson.html

On this day in 1843, William Wordsworth was appointed British Poet Laureate by Queen Victoria. Wordsworth initially declined the honour, saying he was too old, but later accepted when the Prime Minister, Robert Peel, assured him that “you shall have nothing required of you”. Wordsworth therefore became the only poet laureate not to write official poetry.