Ascension Day: a poem
Yesterday was the Feast of the Ascension, so this is late. I guess it is still May 30th in California and points West (up to the International Date Line) though:…
Tag: poems
“Stealth”, Howard Stein
It’s heading into midsummer. So, the perfect time to post a short poem about autumn. “Stealth” by Howard Stein (who has an interesting bio)captures the transitory, and elusive, nature of…
“The Sonnet Is Dead”, a sonnet by Joanna Cleary
From the Summer 2018 issue of Temz Review here is a sonnet (of course) by Joanna Cleary. I like its ironic treatment of contemporary lit crit certainties. And of course,…
“I am missing too many important things/because I don’t know how to read.” -‘If I Knew Braille’, a poem by Holly Day
From The Writing Disorder If I Knew Braille If I knew Braille, perhaps I could read the graffiti of purple-mouthed limpets clinging to old, sea-washed boulders the secret Bibles of…
“the only wisdom within our grasp during our stay in the insoluble mystery of who and where and when we are is the wisdom of humility?”
Comment sections have a bad press, and one can understand when even the most innocuous YouTube video can have all sorts of rabid anger unleashed below. Sometimes, however, comments can…
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…
Lincoln Allison on Belloc and the lost art of declamation
Looking for something else entirely, I come across this piece from 2005 on the Social Affairs Unit Blog by Lincoln Allison on Hilaire Belloc’s Cautionary Verses. Allison begins with a…
For Jakow Trachtenberg
For Jakow Trachtenberg The embers of bitterness did not burn in you. The machinery of mathematics did not cease in you. The days of hell did not rob you of…
Séamus Sweeney 