It all started with two remarks, one by a friend, the other by a stranger at work. ß The friend’s … More
Tag: Thomas Lux
New Year Letter
Dear Anthony (I will never get used to calling you Tony) Here are some words of advice from your nearing-fifty-year-old … More
Lifesaving Poems: Yorifumi Yaguchi’s Praying Mantis
Readers who have followed my Lifesaving Poems series will know by now that there isn’t and wasn’t a plan about … More
Lifesaving Poems: Thomas Lux’s ‘An Horatian Notion’
Photo Credit: Tatiana Wilson You make the thing because you love the thing and you love the thing because someone … More
Lifesaving Poems: Deryn Rees-Jones’s ‘What It’s Like To Be Alive’
Last week I read Antony Dunn‘s marvellous essay about his poetics, ‘To Tell You the Truth’ (from In Their Own … More
Thomas Lux’s ‘The Voice You Hear When You Read Silently’
To celebrate World Book Day last week I read the poem below, by Thomas Lux, to my students. It … More
Lifesaving Poems
I was struck by a remark of Seamus Heaney in an interview he gave some years ago now. He was … More
The People of the Other Village -poem by Thomas Lux
The People of the Other Village hate the people of this village and would nail our hats to our … More
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