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Tag: Life Lessons

James Schuyler: Centenary year celebrations

Open call for guest blog posts celebrating the life and work of James Schuyler This November, we celebrate the centenary … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, James Schuyler, Life Lessons, New York Poets, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Reading Poetry, Writing, Writing Poems

On having allies

I once heard a senior British poet warming to a riff during a reading on the topic of the acknowledgements … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Blogging, Life Lessons, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Writing, Writing Poems

Advent meditation 3

This time last year, I had begun a third period waiting for a response to a new manuscript of poems. … More

Advent, Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Funboy Three, Life Lessons, Poems, Poetry, Poets, putting a collection together, Terry Hall, Waiting, Writing, Writing Poems

Advent meditation 2

One of the things I have learned about myself in the last year or so is that I can sometimes … More

Activism, Advent, Education, Life Lessons, Teaching, Teaching Poetry, Teaching Reading, Teaching Writing

Advent meditation

I like to think of myself as a pretty consistent person. I look askance with a certain smugness at the … More

Advent, Christmas, Joni Mitchell, Life Lessons, Music, politics, The World Cup

UCU Strike: reflections and resources

Thank you to everyone who stopped by and liked or commented on yesterday’s blog post about the UCU strike action … More

Education, Higher Education, Life Lessons, Pension Dispute, Poems, Poetry, Poets, UCU, UCU Strike, USS Strikes

Not much

What’s been happening? Well, not much. Which is another, deflecting, way of saying quite a lot, actually. So much that … More

Adam Zagajewski, Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Coral Bracho, Ellen Bass, Life Lessons, Max Richter, Paul Hlava Ceballos, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Reading Poetry, Sarah Maguire, Shawna Lemay, Writing, Writing Poems

Lifesaving Lines: Pobble, by Heather Trickey

Heather Trickey was a social research scientist, charity worker, Quaker and poet. In 2020, during the first Covid lockdown, she … More

Cancer, Heather Trickey, Life Lessons, Lifesaving Lines, Poems, Poetry, Poetry about Cancer, Poets, Reading Poetry, Writing Poems

Lifesaving Lines: The Trees, by Philip Larkin

Early May. Sitting in the bay window upstairs at Cricklewood revising for finals. My pink vest and purple jeans phase. … More

Being a Poet, Being a Student, Life Lessons, Lifesaving Lines, philip larkin, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Reading Poetry, The Trees, Virginia Woolf

More places of hope

I said here a couple of years ago that Natalie Jabbar’s blog of curated poems each April is like a … More

Anti-Refugee Bill, Being a Poet, Hubert Moore, Life Lessons, Lifesaving Poetry, Natalie Jabbar, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Reading Poetry, Shawna Lemay

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

Gerard Manley Hopkins, Life Lessons, Miroslav Holub, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Reading Poetry, Spring, Studying Poetry

Lifesaving Lines: The Bluet, by James Schuyler

On a spring day as far from ‘late in dour October’ it would be harder to imagine, James Schuyler’s The … More

Being a Poet, Carl Phillips, James Schuyler, Life Lessons, Mental Health, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Reading Poetry, Seamus Heaney, Ukraine

Lifesaving Lines: The Death of Fred Clifton, by Lucille Clifton

So this is a bit spooky. All week I had in mind these marvellous final words from Lucille Clifton’s poem … More

Adam Zagajewski, Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Frank O'Hara, French stationery, Josephine Corcoran, Life Lessons, Lucille Clifton, McFadden & Whitehead, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Queer Eye, Reading Poetry, Shawna Lemay, Stationery, Stina Nordenstam, Writing

Not exactly good riddance

Just a few hours left of 2021. Time to reflect on what this year has been. Until a week or … More

2021, Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Life Lessons, Max Richter, Mental Health, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Reading Poetry, Simon Parke

Lifesaving Lines: What the Living Do, by Marie Howe

Two great lines for the price of one (it is Christmas, after all) this week, from Marie Howe’s extraordinary poem … More

Being a Poet, Cancer, Grief, Life Lessons, Lifesaving Lines, Marie Howe, mindfulness, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Reading Poetry, Remission, What the Living Do

Lifesaving Lines

Thank you to everyone who has commented to me either publicly or in private about my new series of blog … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Cancer, Dementia, Life Lessons, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Shawna Lemay, Stationery, The Afterlife, Writing Poems

Lifsaving Lines: Alone, by Tomas Tranströmer

I have been thinking a lot this week about a line from Tomas Tranströmer’s masterpiece, ‘Alone’. (I have also blogged … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Life Lessons, Max Richter, Poems, Poetry, Poets, reading poems, Reading Poetry, Tomas Transtromer, Tomas Transtromer Alone, William Blake, Wislawa Szymborska

Lifesaving Lines: The Day After, by Michael Laskey

The line that’s been buzzing round my head this week is the final phrase from Michael Laskey’s miracle poem of … More

Being a Poet, Laskey, Life Lessons, Poems, Poems about food, Poetry, Poets, Reading Poetry, Rose Cook, Smith Doorstop

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