Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

Listening to The Rolling Stones as a child and a teen in the 60s and 70s

The restraint of Filippo Meneghetti's "Deux" – and the eyes and face of Martine Chevallier

Going to the cinema on my birthday

Cutting boards and paper filters for coffee: Associations between things and people

Osip Mandelstam "sings the wine of the Ages" but "no one catches [his] words": Alistair Noon's translations of Mandelstam

The "Brannock Device" in Simon Armitage's poem "The Cinderella of Ferndale"