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: Hilary Menos’s ‘Slaughterhouse’

Slaughterhouse Let it be done here, here where deathis all in a day’s work, and by men who dealin the … More

Lifesaving Poems

I was struck by a remark of Seamus Heaney in an interview he gave some years ago now. He was … More