This Be The Best
In 2013 I entered this in one of the Spectator’s poetry competitions, if memory serves a version of a well-known poem endeavouring to convey the precisely opposite message. With apologies…
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A first hand account of being in the eye of an online shame hurricane – “Shame Storm”, Helen Andrews |
At First Things, a highly thought-provoking essay by Helen Andrews on online shaming, and specifically her own experience. One of the most repellent features of online and social media discourse,…
“Water”, Philip Larkin
If I were called in To construct a religion I should make use of water. Going to church Would entail a fording To dry, different clothes. My liturgy would employ…
“While there is still time”
The Mower BY PHILIP LARKIN The mower stalled, twice; kneeling, I found A hedgehog jammed up against the blades, Killed. It had been in the long grass. I had seen…
Séamus Sweeney 