Happy Easter

Happy Easter from the Zoom-Out team! We hope you and your family have a wonderful break! It doesn’t look like we will…

Martian Postcard

Martian Postcard

A writer friend of mine recently gave me a sheet of A4 paper and said, “Here, read this martian poem”. …

BLAKE AS ZOOMOLOGIST

To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the…

Cosmic Soup

Cosmic Soup

Cosmic Soup Cosmic soup did come from a tin, A tiny, teeny, tiny tin. And before that tin, there was…

Art as Zoom-Out

Maria Popova (Brain Pickings) on art as Zoom-Out: “[Art] unsettles us awake, disrupts our deadening routines, enlarges our reservoir of…

Sandsend

Sandsend Oceans new beat oceans past. Across the seas of moments lost. Walk with me in the here and now.…

Art of the Underground

Art of the Underground

The London Underground (rail network, aka Tube) is a source of dread and daily misery. However, it’s full of beauty…

Not Waving but Drowning

Not Waving but Drowning

Not Waving but Drowning Nobody heard him, the dead man,  But still he lay moaning: I was much further out…

OMENS

This was the sight that greeted me each morning as I emerged from Waterloo Station, London, during 2016 when I was…

SELF PITY

SELF PITY

Self-Pity I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough…

Solomon Grundy

Solomon Grundy

Solomon Grundy Solomon Grundy, Born on a Monday, Christened on Tuesday, Married on Wednesday, Took ill on Thursday, Grew worse…