Some of my favourite poetry books of all time are anthologies. Not the headline selections everybody has (and has to … More
Category: Teaching Poetry
Lifesaving Poems: Carl Sandburg’s ‘Buffalo Dusk’
Apart from e e cummings and the genius Anon, one of my chief discoveries in the Voices and Junior Voices series that I … More
Lifesaving Poems: e e cummings’s ‘in Just’
I I first came across e e cummings’s ‘in Just’ in an anthology, Wordscapes, edited by Barry Maybury (OUP, 1971). … More
Lifesaving Poems: Tom Raworth’s ‘8.06 p.m. June 10th 1970’
8.06 p.m. June 10th 1970poemTom Raworth (from Jumpstart, ed. Cliff Yates, Poetry Society, 1999) As I say in my previous blog post, … More
Foal Failure
Birth of the FoalAs May was opening the rosebuds,elder and lilac beginning to bloom.it was time for the mare to … More
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