Poems for my family 008 – Drayton
Listening time: under 5 minutes. One of the greatest love poems in English, this was written by Michael...
Poems for my family 003 – Donne
Listening time: under 3 minutes.
This is the third poem I chose to share with my family, copied out by...
Poetry as a boat
Another maritime metaphor in Heaney's introduction to a poem set in a sea-world. The ‘big quay’ of language and literature can...
Poetry as recall
Slowly I’m building a collection of quotations defining poetry. With a few more in the bag, we can lay them...
The sonnet never written
This is one of the longest and most entertaining chapters in Machado de Assis' novel Don Casmurro, a fictional memoir...
Poems for my family 002 – Frost
Listening time: under 4 minutes.
This is the second poem I chose to share with my family, in what will...
Shorter but longer
This pithy summary of the difference between prose and poetry is as much as Orlando gleans from the convoluted accounts...
Learning as lift off
WritingRedux celebrates language that is alive and pulsating. Â It celebrates the joys and rewards of reading and writing. Â What...
A hospital for poets
The 18th century German poet Friedrich Hölderlin considers philosophy as a possible cure - or at least refuge - for...
A voice answering a voice?
More than just the writing of poetry, isn't writing in general often 'a voice answering a voice'?
This touching quotation...
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