To safe and almost universal silence I published How Far From Here is Home? (Stride) a few days before Christmas in … More
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Lifesaving Poems: Ted Hughes’s ‘Wind’
Wind This house has been far out at sea all night,The woods crashing through darkness, the booming hills,Winds stampeding the … More
Lifesaving Poems: Sean O’Brien’s ‘Before’
To safe and almost universal silence I published How Far From Here is Home? (Stride) a few days before Christmas in … More
Lifesaving Poems: Kathleen Jamie’s ‘The Way We Live’
Sometimes you do not get a poem, or what a poet is up to, straight away. In the case of … More
Lifesaving Poems: Siân Hughes’s ‘Results’
I first encountered Siân Hughes‘s poems sitting around a table with some talented teenage poets at the Arvon Foundation‘s writing … More