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Monthly Archives: March 2012
Lent 23: The Present
Michael Donaghy was an Irish American poet who sadly died aged just fifty in 2004. His first two collections, Shibboleth and Errata are now sadly out of print. Some of his more recent collections are not, and there is also … Continue reading
Lent 22: Guest post on Philip Larkin
Today we have a guest post from the lovely Nicky Rowbottom! Out of all the poets I have read, the one I love the most is Philip Larkin. His use of description and imagery is not always kind, but is … Continue reading
Lent 21: Child
I want to share two poems by Sylvia Plath, because I like the optimism in an image they both share. One of them, I’ve actually shared before, here, but I merely linked to it elsewhere. So, now, I will reproduce … Continue reading
Lent 20: Psoriasis
The cover of Sarah Maguire’s fourth collection, The Pomegranates of Kandahar, is striking: a collection of explosive devices at what I assume is a young boy’s feet. The titular Kandahar is the second largest city in Afghanistan, once the famous … Continue reading
Lent 19: Before the Wind
Kathleen Jamie says of her collection The Tree House: “when asked what I write about, I like to reply that ‘about’ is the wrong word, it suggests the wrong relationship. I prefer to say ‘from’ or ‘toward’, or occasionally ‘through’. … Continue reading
Lent 18: 1981
In the PBS Bulletin in which Colette Bryce’s collection The Full Indian Rope Trick was recommended (Winter 2004), her comments contained some excellent thoughts and quotes about poetry. It is with genuine admiration that I include extracts from them here: … Continue reading
Lent 17: Piano Lesson
I don’t even own a copy of Eva Salzman’s New & Collected book, Double Crossing yet, but I enjoyed this poem about playing music (badly) and the start of summer so much that I wanted to share it. I suspect … Continue reading
Lent 16: Salvage
The title of Jane Draycott’s The Night Tree refers to a lighthouse, whose reaching beams of light are likened to petals or branches. By the lighthouse keepers, the sea is described as “a forest, our blades / cutting through like … Continue reading
Lent 15: On The Layout of a Ventricle
Ruth Padel’s The Soho Leopard is an interesting collection. I’ve written about it before – its four sections and it’s first poem which fits into none of them. Padel’s grandmother was Charles Darwin’s granddaughter, and I love how this family … Continue reading
Lent 14: August
This is my littlest sister’s favourite poem, by Esta Spalding. I can see why, there’s lots to it. I found this on a forum, she found it in Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times, you can also find it … Continue reading