By Megan O'Neil May you of a better future, love without a care and remember we loved too. As the shadows closed in, the stars came out. — Derek Jarman, 'At Your Own Risk' In September of last year two friends and I visited Prospect Cottage in Dungeness, home of polymath artist and activist Derek Jarman from 1986, the year of his diagnosis with HIV, until his death in February, 1994. After a national campaign to prevent the house and its garden from being taken into private o

In the summer of 1969, I was twenty-one years old and still missed England.

The tadpoles have stars in their bellies.