Suffering from insomnia, Westbrook sympathises with others in the same predicament. See the poem here and the illustrated blog post here.
The death of a friend brings life into focus for John Westbrook, who sums matters up in a ballad. Read it here.
Back home from Troy with Helen, Menelaus reflects. The vision of the reunion at the fall of Troy is by the fifth century BCE Brygos painter. Read the poem by J de S Westbrook here.
The English poet John Westbrook turns his attention from classical subjects to more contemporary issues: world population and the environment. See his “7,000,000,001” here.
The illustration by Emil Keyser is entitled “Expulsion from the Garden of Eden”.
Suffering from insomnia, the poet John Westbrook recalls the sleeplessness of Achilles. In the illustration, an Attic vase of circa 450 BCE, Achilles tends the wounded Patroclus. See Westbrook’s poem here.
In today’s post here, Westbrook uses clerihews to poke fun at famous novelists and the cantankerous critic FR Leavis.