Here are the blog posts from 2022 that you read most often Lifesaving Lines: The Death of Fred Clifton, by … More
Tag: Gerard Manley Hopkins
Lifesaving Lines: Spring, by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Our tiny minds blown by ‘The Wreck of the Deutschland’, ‘Spelt From Sibyl’s Leaves’ and ‘As Kingfisher’s Catch Fire’, we … More
An Upstairs Kitchen
An Upstairs KitchenIt is strange that I used to thinkthe summers were best in this kitchenhigh in the back of … More
When poets disappear
Some of my favourite poetry books of all time are anthologies. Not the headline selections everybody has (and has to … More
Lifesaving Poems: Gerard Manley Hopkins’s ‘No worst, there is none’
I treated myself to Seth Godin‘s newish book The Icarus Deception recently. It is both dense and light, profound and easy to … 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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