Brian Patten – A Random Walk

October 3, 2025 by Matt Willing

The Poet and His Poetry

This week’s choice marks National Poetry Day and it’s a poem about a poet: Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “On a Portrait of Wordsworth by B. R. Haydon”.

I Was Being Good (Honest)

A more cheerful choice this week as Brian Patten’s “Dear Mum” describes some mysterious happenings at home.

The Harvest of His Dreams

This week’s poem is by Brian Patten and I have chosen it for Nicola, for her father Lloyd and for my cousin Roger, and for all those who we have lost.