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...
Fire or flood?
How did the Flood of floods come about? According to Hughes' irresistible re-telling of Ovid's tales, Jove quietly considered the...
Language in orbit
A poet can provide the initial lift-off, but then the poem enters its own orbit and runs on its own...
Of abundant overflow
What causes creativity to spring forth? I like Seamus Heaney's idea that it is not so much reactive as a...
Lapping the summits
What an image! The original deluge raising water levels so high that they lap over the summits...
Poems for my family 012 – Thomas
Listening time: under 4 minutes.Â
A poet describes the driving force of his art, not one of fame, trophies...
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
A beloved possession, this book was given to me by my mother for Christmas 1969, when I was six. You...
Of perfumed poems
New year’s readolutions
Happy new year!  What will you be reading?  What do you wish to read? Feel free to send me a...
The window-dressers of power
While this comment refers to a specific poetry collection, I like it as a worthwhile goal for poetry, or come...
Clay-floored foetor
This humble and humbling triologism is from Seamus Heaney's eloquent commentary on a moving poem by Derek Mahon, 'A Disused...
How to hide a poem (II)
Listening time: under 5 minutes.  This disturbing quotation is striking on several levels.  By the Hungarian poet György Faludy concerning...
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