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Posted on September 11, 2018September 11, 2018

“The most prosaic man becomes a poem when you stand by his grave at his funeral and think of him.”

I came across the above quote from Thomas Hardy’s notebooks via the latest post on Stephen Pentz’s blog First Known When Lost Pentz highlights a poem by F T Prince…

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Posted on September 23, 2017September 24, 2017

Versions of Alcman’s “Sleep”

At First Known When Lost, Stephen Pentz collects some versions of fragmentary lines by the Spartan lyric poem Alcman. This fragment was used by Edgar Allan Poe for the epigraph…

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Posted on June 12, 2017June 15, 2017

Poems on the wind – John Hewitt, Patrick McDonagh, Wallace Stevens

From First Known When Lost: In the meantime, we have the wind.  And poems about the wind. Providence White roses shatter, overblown, by the breath of a little wind undone,…

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Posted on May 30, 2017June 5, 2017

“Reciprocity”, John Drinkwater

From the ever wonderful First Known When Lost blog, a meditative post which features the poet John Drinkwater. All I knew of Drinkwater before this was a school text which…

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Posted on May 4, 2017May 4, 2017

“become adept at letting things go” First Known When Lost: Milosz, Derek Mahon and Taigi on the passing time

From here at the wonderful blog First Known When Lost. As well as bringing to our attention much outstanding poetry that has the great merit of being unfashionable or forgotten, Stephen Pentz…

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Posted on February 22, 2016July 2, 2017

Dabbler no more.

Sad to report that The Dabbler is on an indefinite hiatus . It was a great website, and not only because they printed things by me. It was an oasis of wit, insight…

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