Antoine Ó Flatharta

My cactus flowers for only the second time in 20 years.

Wonderful poem for our times by Poet Laureate Simon Armitage. Published in the Sunday Times today.

Great essay by Pedro Almodóvar on living through Spain’s lockdown. Almodvar’s sentence “I am used to living on my own and being on a state of alarm; a not so happy discovery‘ resonates