Welcome to my blog...whatever image springs to mind, be it a hippopotamus, Tigger, red-haired Highland cattle, or a simple kitchen table, 'Unless a Seed' is a four-legged creature. My hope is that having read a Book Review, a Poem, or a What is a Christian? or some random post in Everything Else, you will be kind enough to leave a comment or a short reply. And I hope you enjoy reading its contents
What is a Christian?
Book, Podcast, Film, and Blog Reviews
Poetry
For Writers, Writing and Everything Else
Mustard on Lamb?
Are we all rebels at heart? I’ll have mustard with almost anything, the measure of my revolution
MA Creative Writing, Exeter University Creating a Poem…live…part one
An invitation to track creating a poem in real time, in four stages
He Took Me There
Hovering in the background are two New Testament verses…Romans 6v6 and Galatians 2v20
I’ll wear your crown
Jonah - yet another flawed biblical hero. Is I’ll wear your crown about Jonah?
Lesson from a cider orchard
An encounter with an apple tree that took me to the heart of this, my website, www.unlessaseed.com, an unexpected return home
Two Cats, Deux Chats
In France an elegant cat sitting in a cafe planter. In England, a graceful grey feline rests in a pram…are they in some form of telepathic cat-conversation that fails to recognise international borders?
Annoyed by a fence
Yes, I know, poetry should celebrate beauty, nature, God, love, wonder…but today, I’m annoyed by a fence.