My first reader was a man called Fergus. A friend of a flatmate at university, I never got to … More
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Lifesaving Poems: Carol Ann Duffy’s ‘Words, Wide Night’
Like a lot of people I first came across Carol Ann Duffy‘s ‘Words, Wide Night’ as a Poems on the … More
Lifesaving Poems: Theodore Roethke’s ‘Elegy for Jane’
Elegy for Jane(My student, thrown by a horse)I remember the neckcurls, limp and damp as tendrils;And her quick look, a … More
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