As the summer holidays take over I am re-posting the odd blog post from my archive. To celebrate the start … More
Tag: Found Poetry
The Year of Living Deeply 20: Poems hatch – a found poem by Marge Piercy
Poems hatch Poems hatch frommemory, fantasy, theneed to communicatewith the living,the dead, the unborn.Poems come directly outof daily life, fromthe … More
This divine breath, by Johann Herder
A breath of our mouth Becomes the portrait of the world, The type of our thoughts And our feelings … More
Other objects, by Primo Levi
Consider what value, What meaning Is enclosed even In the smallest Of our daily habits, In the hundred possessions Which … More
August, by Tove Jansson
Every year, the bright Scandinavian summer nights fade away without anyone noticing. One evening in August you have an errand … More
Because failure is assured
Recently I have been reading the exquisite prose of Janna Malamud Smith, in her book-length meditation on creativity: An Absorbing Errand: … More
