I began writing the Lifesaving Poems posts in May, 2011. Below is a list of the twenty most popular poems … More
Tag: Yves Bonnefoy
The Top 10 Lifesaving Poems
I began writing the Lifesaving Poems series of blog posts in May 2010. The idea was to celebrate the poems … More
Lifesaving Poems: Yves Bonnefoy’s ‘Let a Place be Made’
I lost two friends this week. They had both been suffering from cancer, and had been told that effective attempts … More
Lifesaving Poems
I was struck by a remark of Seamus Heaney in an interview he gave some years ago now. He was … More