Gone, gone again,

May, June, July,

And August gone,

Again gone by,

Not memorable

Save that I saw them go,

As past the empty quays

The rivers flow.

And now again,

In the harvest rain,

The Blenheim oranges

Fall grubby from the trees,

As when I was young—

And when the lost one was here—

And when the war began

To turn young men to dung.

Look at the old house,

Outmoded, dignified,

Dark and untenanted,

With grass growing instead

Of the footsteps of life,

The friendliness, the strife;

In its beds have lain

Youth, love, age, and pain:

I am something like that;

Only I am not dead,

Still breathing and interested

In the house that is not dark:—

I am something like that:

Not one pane to reflect the sun,

For the schoolboys to throw at— They have broken every one.

In the February edition of the Screen Group West London, we had the special presence of the director and producer Marcel Grant, talking about independent filmmaking.

Marcel Grant is a British independent filmmaker based in London, who has written and directed four feature films, Open My Eyes (2016) Coffee Sex You (2014), Just Inès (2010), and What’s Your Name 41? (2005). Grant is the founder of MAMA Film Worx and the WSFF film festival and brand. He is currently filming a one hour documentary The Late Great ‘78 about his personal experience as a seventeen-year-old in 1978, featuring Grace Jones and Amanda Lear, due for release in early 2022.

On this edition of Nektar Island we talk about movies, cycling, good music and ‘The Hunt’ at the Wonderous Stories Film Festival — Check it out!