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Tag: Tomas Transtromer

Lifsaving Lines: Alone, by Tomas Tranströmer

I have been thinking a lot this week about a line from Tomas Tranströmer’s masterpiece, ‘Alone’. (I have also blogged … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Life Lessons, Max Richter, Poems, Poetry, Poets, reading poems, Reading Poetry, Tomas Transtromer, Tomas Transtromer Alone, William Blake, Wislawa Szymborska

The Year of Living Deeply 29: Specs

  At a guess I’ve been wearing them somewhere around the last ten years. Not having inherited my father’s genius … More

Ageing, Eyesight, Life Lessons, Nigel Slater, Reading, reading poems, Reading Poetry, Specs, Spotify, The New Statesman, Tomas Transtromer

Who is your go-to poet?

I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the ‘poets I go back to’ idea, that I first came across in … More

Being a Writer, Being Creative, Creativity, James Schuyler, Life Lessons, Lifesaving Poems, Lifesaving Poetry, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Presence, Reading, reading poems, Reading Poetry, Tomas Transtromer, Writing Poems, Writing Poetry

The Year of Living Deepy 2: Re-reading Tomas Tranströmer

Below Zero We are at a party that doesn’t love us. At last the party lets its mask drop and … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, mindfulness, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Presence, Reading, reading poems, Reading Poetry, Tomas Transtromer

The Half-Finished Heaven, by Tomas Tranströmer

The Half-Finished Heaven Despondency breaks off its course.Anguish breaks off its course.The vulture breaks off its flight. The eager light … More

Dementia, Kenneth Branagh, Lifesaving Poems, Lifesaving Poetry, literature, mindfulness, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Reading, reading poems, Reading Poetry, The Half-Finished Heaven, Tomas Transtromer, Wallander

Tracks, by Tomas Tranströmer

Tracks   2 am: moonlight. The train has stopped out in the middle of the plain. Far away, points of … More

Being a Poet, Blood Cancer, Bloodaxe, Cancer, Life Lessons, Lifesaving Poems, Lifesaving Poetry, literature, mindfulness, non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Presence, Reading, reading poems, Reading Poetry, Remission, Robin Fulton, Tomas Transtromer, Tracks

Go-to poet?

I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the ‘poets I go back to’ idea, that I first came across in … More

Being a Writer, Being Creative, Creativity, James Schuyler, Life Lessons, Lifesaving Poems, Lifesaving Poetry, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Presence, Reading, reading poems, Reading Poetry, Tomas Transtromer, Writing Poems, Writing Poetry

Alone, by Tomas Tranströmer

Alone I One evening in February I came near to dying here.The car skidded sideways on the ice, outon the … More

Alone, Being a Poet, Life Lessons, Lifesaving Poetry, literature, mindfulness, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Presence, Reading, reading poems, Reading Poetry, Tomas Transtromer

The point is the silence

  ‘I’ve stopped listening to the radio!’ ‘What, completely?’ the book says. ‘Not completely, I’m not an idiot,’ I say. … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Creativity, mindfulness, Poems, Poetry, Poets, reading poems, Reading Poetry, Teaching Writing, The Book, Tomas Transtromer, Trusting in the Process, Writing a book of poems, Writing Poetry, Writing Process

Breathing Space July, by Tomas Tranströmer

Breathing Space July   The man who lies on his back under huge trees is also up in them. He … More

Bloodaxe, Breathing Space July, Cancer, Death, Dying, Health, Illness, Life Lessons, Lifesaving Poems, Lifesaving Poetry, Poems, Poetry, Poetry in Education, Poets, Presence, Reading, reading poems, Reading Poetry, The Rattlebag, Tomas Transtromer

Looking for Ted Hughes

‘I’ve been out,’ says the book. ‘So I see,’ I say. The book is dressed in a pith helmet and … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Creativity, mindfulness, Poems, Poetry, Presence, Rest, Seamus Heaney, Teaching Writing, Ted Hughes, The Book, Tomas Transtromer, Trusting in the Process, Writing, Writing a book of poems, Writing Poems, Writing Poetry, Writing Process

Lifesaving Poems: Charles Wright’s ‘After Reading Tu Fu, I Go Outside to the Dwarf Orchard’

After Reading Tu Fu, I Go Outside to the Dwarf Orchard   East of me, west of me, full summer. … More

After Reading Tu Fu I Go Outside to the Dwarf Orchard, Charles Wright, James Schuyler, Life Lessons, Lifesaving Poems, Lifesaving Poetry, mindfulness, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Presence, Reading, reading poems, Reading Poetry, Tomas Transtromer

Should I have heard of you?

I am taking a break from writing brand new blog posts over the summer. Instead of posting new work I … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Life Lessons, Poetry, Poets, Tomas Transtromer

I have read nothing for months

During the Christmas period I am reposting some old posts from my archive.  Wishing all my readers a very happy … More

Cliff Yates, Edwin Morgan, I have read nothing for months, Mark Robinson, Michael Laskey, Raymond Carver, Seamus Heaney, Sharon Olds, Sylvia Plath, Tomas Transtromer

Poetry exhaustion

I am taking a break from writing brand new blog posts over the summer. Instead of posting new work I … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Cancer, Creativity, Education, George Messo, Health, Jaan Kaplinski, Life Lessons, Lifesaving Poems, Lifesaving Poetry, literature, Michael Laskey, Peter Finch, reading poems, Reading Poetry, Seamus Heaney, Smiths Knoll, Tomas Transtromer, Writing, Writing Poems, Writing Poetry

The most popular Lifesaving Poems

I began writing the Lifesaving Poems posts in May, 2011. Below is a list of the twenty most popular poems … More

Billy Collins, Brendan Kennelly, Carl Sandburg, Carol Ann Duffy, Charles Causley, Derek Mahon, Galway Kinnell, John Logan, Julia Darling, Marie Howe, Marin Sorescu, Mary Oliver, popular poems, Rose Cook, Seamus Heaney, Simon Armitage, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Tomas Transtromer, UA Fanthorpe, Yves Bonnefoy

I have not read a book in six months

I have not read a book in six months -Raymond Carver, ‘Drinking While Driving’ I can still remember the shock … More

Ann Sansom, Edwin Morgan, Ian McMillan, Jean Sprackland, Losing control, Marie Howe, Mark Robinson, Michael Laskey, Raymond Carver, Risk, Seamus Heaney, Sharon Olds, Sylvia Plath, Tomas Transtromer, Vulnerability in poetry

Should I have heard of you?

‘We are at a party that doesn’t love us‘ – Tomas Tranströmer We are at a thing.  Not a poetry … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, being called a poet, Education, Life Lessons, Memoir, Poems, Poetry, Poetry Memoir, Poets, Tomas Transtromer, Writers' Lives, Writing

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