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Category: Lifesaving Lines

Lifesaving Lines: An October Salmon, by Ted Hughes

I walked into the middle of a Ted Hughes poem the other week. An early morning dog walk, like any … More

An October Salmon, Being a Poet, Lifesaving Lines, Poems, Poetry, Poets, reading poems, Reading Poetry, Ted Hughes

Lifesaving Lines: The Trees, by Philip Larkin

Early May. Sitting in the bay window upstairs at Cricklewood revising for finals. My pink vest and purple jeans phase. … More

Being a Poet, Being a Student, Life Lessons, Lifesaving Lines, philip larkin, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Reading Poetry, The Trees, Virginia Woolf

Lifesaving Lines: Edge, by Sylvia Plath

But first came Plath. After Ursuala Le Guin, the only female author we studied (OK – Jane Austen). Her name … More

Edge, Lifesaving Lines, Poems, Poetry, Poets, reading poems, Reading Poetry, Robert Lowell, Seamus Heaney, Sylvia Plath, Writing

Lifesaving Lines: Spring, by Gerard Manley Hopkins

Our tiny minds blown by ‘The Wreck of the Deutschland’, ‘Spelt From Sibyl’s Leaves’ and ‘As Kingfisher’s Catch Fire’, we … More

Gerard Manley Hopkins, Life Lessons, Miroslav Holub, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Reading Poetry, Spring, Studying Poetry

Lifesaving Lines: The Bluet, by James Schuyler

On a spring day as far from ‘late in dour October’ it would be harder to imagine, James Schuyler’s The … More

Being a Poet, Carl Phillips, James Schuyler, Life Lessons, Mental Health, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Reading Poetry, Seamus Heaney, Ukraine

Lifesaving Lines: What the Living Do, by Marie Howe

Two great lines for the price of one (it is Christmas, after all) this week, from Marie Howe’s extraordinary poem … More

Being a Poet, Cancer, Grief, Life Lessons, Lifesaving Lines, Marie Howe, mindfulness, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Reading Poetry, Remission, What the Living Do

Lifesaving Lines: Indelible, Miraculous, by Julia Darling

I have been thinking a lot about the poetry of Julia Darling this week. Her work became essential to me … More

Amos Trust, Anti-Refugee Bill, breast cancer, Cancer, Freedom From Torture, Israel Palestine, Julia Darling, Lifesaving Lines, Poems, Poetry, Poets, politics

Lifesaving Lines

Thank you to everyone who has commented to me either publicly or in private about my new series of blog … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Cancer, Dementia, Life Lessons, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Shawna Lemay, Stationery, The Afterlife, Writing Poems

Lifesaving Lines: Autumn, by Roo Borson

We have a lot of windows. I sit next to them at this time of the year thinking, Just five … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Grief, Lifesaving Lines, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Reading Poetry, Roo Borson

Lifsaving Lines: Alone, by Tomas Tranströmer

I have been thinking a lot this week about a line from Tomas Tranströmer’s masterpiece, ‘Alone’. (I have also blogged … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Life Lessons, Max Richter, Poems, Poetry, Poets, reading poems, Reading Poetry, Tomas Transtromer, Tomas Transtromer Alone, William Blake, Wislawa Szymborska

Lifesaving Lines: The Day After, by Michael Laskey

The line that’s been buzzing round my head this week is the final phrase from Michael Laskey’s miracle poem of … More

Being a Poet, Laskey, Life Lessons, Poems, Poems about food, Poetry, Poets, Reading Poetry, Rose Cook, Smith Doorstop

Lifesaving Lines: Poem for Wednesday, by Naomi Jaffa

Recently, my relationship with Wednesdays has changed. It’s quite a long story, and one I don’t want to trouble you … More

Being a Poet, Life Lessons, Mental Health, Mental Health at Work, Naomi Jaffa, Poems, Poetry, Poets, reading poems, Reading Poetry

Lifsaving Lines: For Sheridan, by Robert Lowell

The line that’s been buzzing round my head the last couple of weeks is from Robert Lowell’s heartbreaking poem ‘For … More

Being a Poet, Day by Day Robert Lowell, Life Lessons, Lifesaving Poems, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Reading Poetry, Robert Lowell, Seamus Heaney

Lifesaving Lines: Fosterage, by Seamus Heaney

I was very saddened to hear of the death of Brendan Kennelly this week. He had been a long-standing presence … More

Being a Poet, Brendan Kennelly, Exposure, Michael McLaverty, Reading Poetry, Seamus Heaney, Singing School, Social Media, Writing Poems

Lifesaving Lines: The Bight, by Elizabeth Bishop

‘Awful but cheerful’ is the final phrase and line of ‘The Bight‘, by Elizabeth Bishop. I’ve always felt that the … More

At the Fishhouses, Being a Poet, Elizabeth Bishop, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Reading, Reading Poetry, The Bight

Lifesaving Lines: The Gift, by Brendan Kennelly

I was at a thing. Very rarely for me, it was my own thing, only my second in front of … More

Being a Poet, Brendan Kennelly, Cancer, Life Lessons, Nils Frahm, Poems, Poetry, Poetry Readings, Poets, Reading Poetry, Remission and Cancer, Stationery, The Gift, Writing Poems

Lifesaving Lines: Why We Must Write, by Mark Halliday

I thought of it before I knew I had remembered it. Just the word ‘then’. Rereading and searching at speed … More

Being a Poet, Jab, Lifesaving Lines, Lifesaving Poems, Mark Halliday, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Reading Poetry

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