Jonathan Shayfer

Pow wow is many things to many people. It is mostly a coming together, a celebration of life and the ancestors who have walked these...

We have quietly, almost without noticing, drifted into a new strange awareness. We have become something other than ourselves. I now look...

So, 2020 seemed to be The Year of Living Dangerously and 2021, after the inevitable January Blues was going to get better and we'd all...

So, there's a good reason - many in fact - why I call this blog 'Shayfer's Fire'. I've been fascinated by the fiery stuff since I was...

So....the film magazine, 'EMPIRE', had a feature in which people from the industry chose their favourite, riveting, most moving or...

This is an edited selection of poems that explores the bewildering and diverse range of experiences children enjoy in a school environment.

A miscellaneous assortment of poetry, verse and lyrics reflecting on themes like ecology, the natural world, soul mates and broken treaties.

An anthology of lone voices from all walks of life telling their stories to an audience whose reaction we never hear.