Teachers’ words should not be ‘How to write’ but ‘How to try to say what you really mean’ – which … More
Tag: Poetry in the Making
The Invisible College
I have just come back from a thing. I am tired. A good afternoon of good conversation about large, important … More
Lifesaving Poems: Susannah Amoore’s ‘An Upstairs Kitchen’
An Upstairs KitchenIt is strange that I used to thinkthe summers were best in this kitchenhigh in the back of … More
Lifesaving Poems: e e cummings’s ‘in Just’
I first came across e e cummings’s ‘in Just’ in an anthology, Wordscapes, edited by Barry Maybury (OUP, 1971). A … 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
