Consider what value,
What meaning
Is enclosed even
In the smallest
Of our daily habits,
In the hundred possessions
Which even the poorest
Beggar owns:
A handkerchief,
An old letter,
The photo
Of a cherished person.
These things
Are part of us,
Almost like limbs
Of our body;
Nor is it conceivable
That we can be deprived
Of them in our world,
For we immediately find others
To substitute the old ones,
Other objects
Which are ours
In their personification
And evocation
Of our memories.
Primo Levi, from If This Is a Man
Some found poems
On Noticing
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I am a lecturer, poet and writing tutor. I work in teacher and medical education at the University of Exeter. My anthology Lifesaving Poems was published by Bloodaxe Books in 2015. In 2012 I published Riddance (Worple Press), a collection of poems, and Love for Now (Impress Books), a memoir, about my experience of cancer. My most recent books are Deck Shoes (Impress Books, 2019), a book of prose memoir and criticism, and The Afterlife (Worple Press, 2019). In 2023 I will publish The Wind and the Rain, my sixth collection of poems, with Blue Diode Press. My current research project, with Sue Dymoke from Nottingham Trent University and funded by the Foyle Foundation, is Young Poets' Stories: https://youngpoetsstories.com/. This blog is archived by the British Library.
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