Blind panic when the anthology I am in arrives. The hunt, ever more despairing, for my poem, certain that they … More
Tag: Connie Bensley
Dark horses: 21 Lifesaving Poems which should be better known
Readers of this blog will know that I make a list at the end of each year showing the most … More
Lifesaving Poems: Connie Bensley’s ‘Sunday Lunchtime’
Sunday LunchtimeThe whirlpools of the launderettedo not recognise the Sabbath,so the air in Worple Streetsmells of soapsuds and roast beef.The … More
Lifesaving Poems: CK Williams’s ‘Kin’
Kin“You make me sick!” this, with rancor, vehemence, disgust—again, “You hear me? Sick!”with rancor, vehemence, disgust again, with rage and … More
Lifesaving Poems
I was struck by a remark of Seamus Heaney in an interview he gave some years ago now. He was … More
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