The most recent addition to my list of Lifesaving Poems is ‘Prayer’ by Marie Howe. I read it for the first time…
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Finding time -by Anne Lamott from Sunset.com
Lamott’s books include Operating Instructions and Traveling Mercies. Her new novel, Imperfect Birds (Riverhead Books; $26), will be published this…
Lifesaving Poems: Tomas Tranströmer’s ‘Alone’
Alone I One evening in February I came near to dying here. The car skidded sideways on the ice, out…
Poetry Exhaustion
If you write poetry (and I assume that if you do, you are also actively engaged in reading…
Lifesaving Poems: William Blake’s ‘The Divine Image’ (via Lies Damned Lies)
The Divine ImageTo Mercy, Pity, Peace, and LoveAll pray in their distress;And to these virtues of delightReturn their thankfulness.For Mercy,…
Lifesaving Poems
I was struck by a remark of Seamus Heaney in an interview he gave some years ago now. He was…
On Martin Stannard and Paul Scholes
‘If he had been Spanish then maybe he would bave been valued more.’ -Xavi Hernandez (Spain and Barcelona) on Paul…
Letter to a young poet -by CK Williams in The Young Poets Network
I’ll begin by promising that there’ll be times in your life as a poet when the problems that are a…
Can Poets Teach?: On Writers Teaching Writing -by Joan Houlihan at Poets.org
Like a Jules Verne novel, Dana Gioia’s famous essay “Can Poetry Matter” got the future’s big picture right, but the…
The People of the Other Village -poem by Thomas Lux
The People of the Other Village hate the people of this village and would nail our hats to our…
A new poem: The Ring
The Ring for Pete and Ana James And if I said a part of me leapt from a…
Love Listen -A new poem by Ann Gray
Love Listen Let’s love, listen, take time when time is all we have. Let’s be unafraid to be kind, learn…
Why Jamie’s Dream School is not about education
You have to hand it to Jamie Oliver for giving it a go. How he kept so positive confronting all…
To my cancer
To My Cancer When you left me I did not say goodbye. I kissed you then carried you outside. You…
Advice from the dying -by Oliver Burkeman in The Guardian
Photo: Andy Oliver In May 2005, the chairman and chief executive of the accountancy giantKPMG was told he had about 100…
Joan Miro, teaching and freedom
Last week I had the privilege of taking my Primary PGCE English specialists on a trip toLondonfor the final…
Why Andrew Motion is my hero
Andrew Motion is my hero because he set up the Poetry Archive with Richard Carrington. He has nothing left to prove. As…
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