Death-haunted aubade
This triologism emerges from Seamus Heaney's imagining how Philip Larkin would have written The Divine Comedy, triggered by his reading...
Liver-thick mud
A touching recollection by Seamus Heaney of a moment decades before which wedded him to a particular landscape. I like...
Rules of engagement
Where I have failed to appreciate some of the most enduringly esteemed works of literature, it has often been due...
Wedge-shadowed gardens
Two superb triologisms in a few lines of Larkin - I like his wedge-shadowed gardens and then the Brontean empyrean...
To be forever on the road
A marvelous metaphor to describe poetry and its relationship to speaking; I like this notion of realising that speaking is...
The last of your life…
Hart Crane died very young, making this comment all the more poignant. And if we ‘wrote each poem’ or letter,...
Well-ordered spirit
Three simple words perhaps summing up the pinnacle of much spiritual seeking, especially if once reached, it spills over with...
On poetry and human feeling
Apart from pointing me to some translations of Catullus that may propel to me a new level of human feeling,...
Zeus dispenses with practicalities
Zeus here neatly rebuffs his daughter Athene's requests. I like his suitably arch reaction, which puts all supplicants in their...
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...
Head-clearing airiness
A few draughts of head-clearing airiness are a great way to start the new year. I also like Heaney's use...
Let the colour dry
An insight into technique by a superb poet, using a wonderful metaphor. Time fixes colours, in words as in paints,...
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