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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 Job of Paradise, by Roger Robinson

My personal poetry highlight of the summer was listening to Roger Robinson read and be in conversation with Pádraig Ó … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Benjamin Zander, Bernadine Evaristo, Greenbelt, Kwame Dawes, Lifesaving Lines, Pádraig Ó Tuama, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Reading Poetry, Roger Robinson

Lifesaving Lines: History, by Tomaž Šalamun

The other day I bumped into Tomaž Šalamun. I was enjoying the last few hours of walking around Ljubljana, took … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, History, Lifesaving Lines, Ljubljana, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Reading Poetry, Tomaž Šalamun

Lifesaving Lines: “Still Do I Keep My Look, My Identity…”, by Gwendolyn Brooks

It was the dying of the light of my time on Twitter. Days when I miss it, I think of … More

Being a Poet, Gwendolyn Brooks, Lifesaving Lines, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Reading Poetry, Still Do I Keep My Looks

Lifesaving Lines: An October Salmon, by Ted Hughes

I walked into the middle of a Ted Hughes poem the other week. An early morning dog walk, like any … More

An October Salmon, Being a Poet, Lifesaving Lines, Poems, Poetry, Poets, reading poems, Reading Poetry, Ted Hughes

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

Lifesaving Lines: Edge, by Sylvia Plath

But first came Plath. After Ursuala Le Guin, the only female author we studied (OK – Jane Austen). Her name … More

Edge, Lifesaving Lines, Poems, Poetry, Poets, reading poems, Reading Poetry, Robert Lowell, Seamus Heaney, Sylvia Plath, Writing

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: Indelible, Miraculous, by Julia Darling

I have been thinking a lot about the poetry of Julia Darling this week. Her work became essential to me … More

Amos Trust, Anti-Refugee Bill, breast cancer, Cancer, Freedom From Torture, Israel Palestine, Julia Darling, Lifesaving Lines, Poems, Poetry, Poets, politics

Lifesaving Lines: Autumn, by Roo Borson

We have a lot of windows. I sit next to them at this time of the year thinking, Just five … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Grief, Lifesaving Lines, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Reading Poetry, Roo Borson

Lifesaving Lines: Why We Must Write, by Mark Halliday

I thought of it before I knew I had remembered it. Just the word ‘then’. Rereading and searching at speed … More

Being a Poet, Jab, Lifesaving Lines, Lifesaving Poems, Mark Halliday, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Reading Poetry

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