Instinct with poetry
A fine and subtle way to depict a look which appears to express more than the person looking is capable...
Can there be any day but this?
These lovely lines are from George Herbert's poem 'Easter', and that is the day of which he says there is...
Learning by heart
Listening time: 10 minutes.Â
It's been playing on my mind, the fact that recently I haven't learned any...
Thunderbolts are go (I)
The gods learn the price of rebellion against the supreme one. Hughes' re-telling of Ovid's tales has some spectacular thunderbolt...
Like the last of his life
Harold Bloom's comment on Hart Crane (1899-1932) is all the more poignant knowing that Crane considered some of his major...
Salt-bleached eyes
From the opening line of Ted Hughes superb 'Warriors of the North', presaging an icy and violent arrival, 'bringing their...
Like a house that stays standing
Recently, I've been turning over in my mind poems learned by heart, and searching the memory banks of some once...
Sea-clap music
Seamus Heaney's comment on a poem by Sylvia Plath conveys something of the shore-scouring slaps and soughs of it:
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Of wine and poetry
Here we have a poet and a vintner who connects the magic between wine and poetry. Wine can be poetic...
Synaesthetic sound
An early evocation of synaesthesia - I like Dante's portrayal of a voice in terms of visibility. This is from...
Now we are six
As we approach the 6th birthday of WritingRedux, I've cast my mind back to the year I turned six and...
Resurrection in barley
An astonishing image used by Seamus Heaney in his 'Requiem for the Croppies', as he explains here regarding the poem...
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