Van Morrison – Prayers, Poems, and Christian Ponderings

Cleaning Windows!

It’s not a mistake to find the book Lit Up Inside amongst my books of poetry. Some might think that a book of song lyrics by Van Morrison doesn’t belong squeezed between Billy Collins and Mary Karr and a few shelves away from Betjeman, Stevens and Larkin! I like where I have placed it. SongContinue reading “Cleaning Windows!”

Famous

For me, hardly a day goes by without the sounds and lyrics of Van Morrison. Unlike Bob Dylan, Morrison will not likely receive a nomination for the Nobel Prize for Literature. Dylan received this award in 2016 and the Swedish Academy noted why “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.” Continue reading “Famous”