Here are the most read Lifesaving Poems of 2014. For the first time I have been able to compare last … More
Category: WH Auden
Lifesaving Poems: Don Paterson’s ‘Heliographer’
W.H. Auden once said that writers should always be honest, even about their prejudices. So here is my confession: when … More
Lifesaving Poems: Billy Collins’s ‘Morning’
In February, 1999 I was sitting in a car park with Naomi Jaffa when she asked me what 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
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