Welcome:

This blog was prompted by my son (in his twenties) wanting to get more seriously into poetry and asking me to recommend some poems. Where to begin? So this is primarily for him, but I hope other readers might enjoy it too.


Monday 14 December 2015

Jan Wagner

An essay on midges

'An Essay on Midges' comes from Jan Wagner's  'A Swarm of Bees' translated by Iain Galbraith (published by Arc, 2015) has won the Popescu Prize for Translation.

Saturday 13 June 2015

Kim Moore

A selection of poems on her web page. Of these, I think 'I'm Thinking of my Father' and  'Teaching the Trumpet' are my favourites. Click  here

  I love her whole collection 'The Art of Falling' (Seren, 2015)