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Category: Helen Dunmore

Lifesaving Poems: Helen Dunmore’s ‘In the Desert Knowing Nothing’

During the Christmas period I am reposting some old posts from my archive.  Wishing all my readers a very happy … More

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Lifesaving Poems: Helen Dunmore’s ‘In the Desert Knowing Nothing’

In the Desert Knowing Nothing   Here I am in the desert knowing nothing, here I am knowing nothing in … More

'Stormin' Norman Schwarzkopf, 24 hour news culture, Helen Dunmore, In the Desert Knowing Nothing, Iraq, Iraq War poetry, Jackie Kay, Jackie Kay Sassenachs, Michael Harrison and Christopher Stuart-Clark, Michael Rosen, Neoliberalism, One Hundred Years of Poetry for Children, Poetry as Prophecy, The discourse of derision, The Poetry Archive

No poem to write

Sometimes I think it’s gone forever -Ken Smith I want to write a poem, Seamus Heaney says, but I have … More

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