I began writing the Lifesaving Poems series of blog posts in May 2010. The idea was to celebrate the poems … More
Category: Seamus Heaney
Lifesaving Poems: Mark Strand’s ‘A Morning’
I fell in love with the poetry of Mark Strand via the enthusiasm of Rupert Loydell sometime in the late … More
Lifesaving Poems: Seamus Heaney’s ‘Night Drive’
Night Drive The smells of ordinarinessWere new on the night drive through France;Rain and hay and woods on the airMade … More
Lifesaving Poems: Michael Laskey’s ‘Bike’
Now that we in Britain have started to think of ourselves as the greatest cycling nation since dinosaurs roamed the … More
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