The Negro Speaks of Rivers I’ve known rivers: I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the … More
Tag: Hearing Poetry
Dusk
Reading Thomas Lux’s magnificent new Selected Poems reminded me recently that I first heard his poems before I read them. One of … More
The People of the Other Village, by Thomas Lux
One of the poets I am most looking forward to listening to at the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival in November is … More
Lifesaving Poems: Esther Morgan’s ‘Avocados’
I heard Michael Symmons Roberts give a magisterial reading from his book Drysalter recently. It was exemplary on so many levels, not … More
Anthony Wilson 