Dark horses: 21 Lifesaving Poems which should be better known

Readers of this blog will know that I make a list at the end of each year showing the most … More

Lifesaving Poems: Tonnus Oosterhoff’s ‘Middle Ages’

Middle Ages Folk from the past jostled for a place in the wallwith distant and here the same sizeIn the … More

I was struck by a remark of Seamus Heaney in an interview he gave some years ago now. He was … More