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Tag: Geoffrey Summerfield
Inside Lifesaving Poems 3
As I have said before, there wasn’t a plan. Which does not mean I don’t feel the luckiest man alive … More
Lifesaving Poems: Adrian Mitchell’s ‘Goodbye’
As I said the other day, Geoffrey Summerfield’s Worlds is one of the most important books in my life. As I … More
Lifesaving Poems: Edwin Morgan’s ‘One Cigarette’
As I have said before, Geoffrey Summerfield’s Worlds (Penguin, 1974) is one of the most important books of my life. It was … More
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: Norman MacCaig’s ‘Aunt Julia’
Norman MacCaig’s ‘Aunt Julia’ was the first poem I remember reading which made me think ‘I need to do this’. … More
Lifesaving Poems: Thom Gunn’s ‘Autobiography’
Thom Gunn’s ‘Autobiography’ (from Geoffrey Summerfield’s Worlds: Seven Modern Poets, 1974), along with Norman MacCaig’s ‘Aunt Julia’, was among the … More
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