A speech given at the NATE annual conference, June 2014 My early poetic experiences were not ‘poetic’ at … More
Category: John Logan
The most popular Lifesaving Poems
I began writing the Lifesaving Poems posts in May, 2011. Below is a list of the twenty most popular poems … More
Lifesaving Poems: Galway Kinnell’s ‘Saint Francis and the Sow’
I have written before that there are a wide range of reasons for including the poems I have in my … More
When poetry stopped me breathing in 2012
I have just been asked by Abegail Morley to send her a list of my poetry books of 2012 for … More
Lifesaving Poems: John Logan’s ‘The Picnic’
The Picnic It is the picnic with Ruth in the spring. Ruth was third on my list of seven girls … More
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