Archive - Beth’s Substack

Time and Distance; something like that anyway.

I seem to be preoccupied by the past these days, am not making much of a success of living in the moment.

Jun 16 • Beth Brooke

The Uses Of Enchantment

Holidays are a source of ideas and inspiration for my writing.

Jun 5 • Beth Brooke

May 2026

Willy Yeats Ate My Homework

Here I am, home again after an all too brief holiday in Sligo.

May 19 • Beth Brooke

Moments of Reckless Beauty

I have had a rather lovely ten days of poetry.

May 6 • Beth Brooke

April 2026

Channeling my inner Shakespeare

It’s Monday and as is customary, it’s all kicking off.

Apr 20 • Beth Brooke

After my previous Substack post where a reader quite thrillingly (for me) referred to the quiet desperation that pervaded the poems I had provided I…

Apr 8 • Beth Brooke

March 2026

Human Geography

I post these without comment.

Mar 26 • Beth Brooke

A Daughter, A Mother

So it is Mother’s Day here in the UK. My mother has been dead for almost six years.

Mar 15 • Beth Brooke

Cake in Isfahan

Well, my poetry enthusiasts, it’s been a bit of a week, hasn’t it? Apologies in advance but I’m just not of of those people who can go, “Yay, I’ve had…

Mar 1 • Beth Brooke

February 2026

Rummaging in the discard folder

First of all I have to confess that I don’t have an actual discard folder, just a lot of things labelled Blank plus a number.

Feb 16 • Beth Brooke

Missing the Canadian Sky

We have been home from Canada for a whole week.

Feb 1 • Beth Brooke

January 2026

Braving January

I am back from Canada: cue gloom.

Jan 27 • Beth Brooke