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UCU Strike: a list of poems about work

Today was not a normal day of work for me. Instead of teaching my amazing students, I chose to participate … More

Education, Higher Education, Lifesaving Poems, Pension Dispute, Poems, Poems about work, Poetry, Poets, Reading Poetry, UCU, UCU Strike, Work

A new review of Lifesaving Poems… from 2015

A huge shout out and massive thank you to Maria Taylor and her wonderful Commonplace blog, where yesterday I discovered … More

Being a Poet, Bloodaxe Books, Bloodaxe Lifesaving Poems, Lifesaving Poems, Maria Taylor, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Reading Poetry

Lifesaving Lines: Stone, I Presume, by Ian Mcmillan

For several weeks before Christmas I had these words from Ian McMillan’s peerless ‘Stone, I Presume’ rattling around my head. … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Frank O'Hara, Ian McMillan, Lifesaving Poems, Martin Stannard, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Reading Poetry, Writing Poems

Lifsaving Lines: For Sheridan, by Robert Lowell

The line that’s been buzzing round my head the last couple of weeks is from Robert Lowell’s heartbreaking poem ‘For … More

Being a Poet, Day by Day Robert Lowell, Life Lessons, Lifesaving Poems, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Reading Poetry, Robert Lowell, Seamus Heaney

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

RIP Jaan Kaplinski

I was very saddened to learn today that the leading Estonian poet Jaan Kaplinski has died, aged 80, of motor … More

Being a Poet, Bloodaxe Books, Jaan Kaplinski, Lifesaving Poems, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Reading Poetry

Writing prompts (blog post ending with a line by Shawna Lemay)

after Shawna Lemay Write a poem about the rain. Or the wind.Write about what you learned at university.Or did not … More

Asking, Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Lifesaving Poems, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Shawna Lemay, Writing, Writing Poems, Writing Poetry, Writing Process, Writing Prompts

Summer links from the archive

Here are some links from my archive to keep you going while I summon the energy and wherewithal to get … More

Catherine Smith, Hubert Moore, Kath Mckay, Lifesaving Poems, Peter Carpenter, Peter Scupham, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Stephen Berg, summer poetry, Susannah Amoore, Tony Hoagland

The blank space

Dear Friends Like the closed down (but still creative) shop window of Top Shop I saw on an early morning … More

Being a Blogger, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Blogging, Grief, Lifesaving Poems, Reading Poetry, Writing, Writing Poems, Writing Process

Lifesaving Poems: Richard Nicholson’s Intense

Intense Look out here comes that bloke with the worn out eyes. He’s always coming ’round here with his talk … More

Billy Penn's Brother, Ivor Cutler, Lifesaving Poems, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Richard Nicholson, Ruckus in Real Time, Theodore Roethke

Poem of the year?

Before I start, I want to say that this is not about stats. This is not about stats. What this … More

Bloodaxe Books, Cancer, Chemobrain, Covid-19, Derek Mahon, Everything is going to be all right, Lifesaving Poems, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Remission

What you read in 2020

Here are the blog posts that you read most in 2020 As I click through the links I am surprised … More

Alzheimer's, Blogging, Dementia, Grief, Lifesaving Poems, Loss, Mental Health, mindfulness, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Presence

Another good week

Fourth Sunday in Advent This was another good week. Because it had rest in it. Because I re-read Anne Lamott’s … More

Advent, Anna Kamienska, Anne Lamott, Gratitude, Lifesaving Poems, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Prose Poetry, Queen's Gambit

Seeds of hope

Introducing Seeds of Hope, the second anthology of poems, prayers, reflections and provocations from the human rights organisation Amos Trust. … More

Advent, Amos Trust, Human Rights, Justice, Lifesaving Poems, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Seeds of Hope

The Sky Over My Mother’s House

The Sky Over My Mother’s House It is a July night scented with gardenias. The moon and stars shine hiding … More

Grief, Jaime Manrique, Life Lessons, Lifesaving Poems, Mental Health, mindfulness, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Presence

What you missed

What You Missed That Day You Were Absent from Fourth Grade Mrs. Nelson explained how to stand still and listento … More

Advent, Brad Aaron Modlin, Lifesaving Poems, Mental Health, Mental Health Awareness, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Seamus Heaney, T.S. Eliot

Before

Before No shoes and a glossyred helmet, I rodeon the back of my dad’sHarley at seven years old.Before the divorce.Before … More

Ada Limon, Grief, Lifesaving Poems, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Presence, Writing

A holiness to exhaustion

First There is a holiness to exhaustion is what I keep telling myself, filling out the form so my TA … More

Carrie Fountain, Exhaustion, Grief, James Schuyler, Lifesaving Poems, mindfulness, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Presence

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