God’s Grief Great parentwho must have started outwith such high hopes.What magnitude of suffering,the immensity of guilt,the staggering despair.A mind … More
Category: Lifesaving Poems
The most popular lifesaving poems
Earlier this year my Lifesaving Poems blog enjoyed something of a milestone. Not as momentous as Jimmy Anderson taking his … More
Lifesaving Poems: Margaret Avison’s ‘Twilight’
Twilight Three minutes ago it was almost dark.Now all the darkness is in theleaves (there are no morelow garage … More
Lifesaving Poems: Mandy Sutter’s ‘Caring for the Environment’
In 1991 I made the decision to spend more of my time concentrating on the thing that fulfilled me … More
Lifesaving Poems: Sean O’Brien’s ‘Before’
To safe and almost universal silence I published How Far From Here is Home? (Stride) a few days before Christmas in … More
Lifesaving poems of summer
As the summer holiday season takes hold, I am posting an old blog post or two from the archive. See … More
Happy James Schuyler Day
To celebrate what I now think of as James Schuyler day, I am reposting June 30, 1974. Happy … More
Open letter to James Schuyler
Dear James (may I call you James?) Though it’s been a while (at least ten years, maybe more) it feels as … More
Jean Sprackland’s ‘The Birkdale Nightingale’ (LentBlog40)
For the final Saturday in Lent, and the final post of this LentBlog series, I have great pleasure in reposting … More
