Category Archives: Memoir

Another Remembrance Day

Posted on November 23, 2013 by Roger Gosden

Veterans Day came round again last week. It brought to mind a boy standing in the drizzle beside a war memorial near London on what is called Remembrance Day over there. I have a black and white picture in my … Continue reading →

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Dear Jean

Posted on August 10, 2013 by Roger Gosden

Dear Jean I couldn’t leave my students to say farewell. Our friends told me it was one of those miserable days before the daffodils bloom along the Cambridge College Backs: Scots would call it a “dreich day”. Pronounced correctly, everyone … Continue reading →

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Bertie’s Latest Poem

Posted on June 27, 2013 by Roger Gosden

The first time we met Bertie she was sitting behind bottles of apple butter and pickled vegetables laid out on a wooden table in the green outside Sharp’s Store in West Virginia. The bottles were lined up in serried ranks, … Continue reading →

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The Good, the Bad, and the Cannibals

Posted on June 2, 2013 by Roger Gosden

The cannibal hungrily carved muscle from the girl’s body; then he broke “Jane’s” skull open to scoop out brain matter. But it was neither in New Guinea nor in the Amazon jungle that her corpse was plundered; it happened in … Continue reading →

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Robert Edwards (1925-2013)

Posted on May 1, 2013 by Roger Gosden

A memorial service for Bob Edwards was held last weekend at Bourn Hall, near Cambridge, England. That is the Jacobean mansion house where he founded the world’s first in vitro clinic for fertility treatment (IVF) with Patrick Steptoe in 1980. … Continue reading →

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