Here is a list of the most-read Lifesaving Poems during 2015: Mary Oliver, The Journey UA Fanthorpe, Atlas Ted Hughes, … More
Category: Simon Armitage
The most read Lifesaving Poems of 2014
Here are the most read Lifesaving Poems of 2014. For the first time I have been able to compare last … More
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
A curry with Matthew Sweeney
I am in the pub with Rupert. We are talking about planning a thing. It’s definitely going to happen. A … More
How poets work
We had been in the new city for two months. The house we had bought was even more of a … More
Lifesaving Poems: ‘Underneath the mathematics of time’
Phil Bowen gave me this poem, written by a ten-year-old girl, in 1998 to illustrate a writing game he submitted … More
Lifesaving Poems: Simon Armitage’s ‘To His Lost Lover’
To His Lost Lover Now they are no longerany trouble to each other he can turn things over, get down … More
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