Thick-witted world
Here's an example of the commentary being arguably more poetic than the poem.  Seamus Heaney's essay on Edwin Muir sums...
A few words of good advice
A cheerily rhyming analysis of the difference between 'poetry' and 'verse'. I may have managed a few verses here and...
Liver-thick mud
A touching recollection by Seamus Heaney of a moment decades before which wedded him to a particular landscape. I like...
In celebration of later love
George Eliot noticed a bias in poets' treatment of love, a tendency to say many fine things about its first...
Salt-bleached eyes
From the opening line of Ted Hughes superb 'Warriors of the North', presaging an icy and violent arrival, 'bringing their...
The poet’s role
I am interested in ideas about the role and nature of poetry, and have featured a number on WritingRedux. Featuring...
From pantheon to palate
A piled up commentary of poets on poets: Heaney on Mandelstam on Dante. Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938), who died in uncertain...
Poetry pressed out by pain
Poetry is one of the strongest channels for expressing pain, and I liked the use of the word 'pressed'. It...
Wind-tousled sky
This is from a few lines of Seamus Heaney's prose in which he imagines how Philip Larkin might have approached...
Beginnings
According to Adam Nicolson, some of the earliest poems were found in Sumer in cuneiform, dating from nearly two thousand...
Hard-won ledge
A sensitive commentary by Seamus Heaney on a poem by Sylvia Plath, 'Mussel Hunter at Rock Harbor'. He describes:
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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...
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