~ Emily Dickinson, The poet is the man made to solve the riddle of the universe who brings the whole soul of man into activity. Everything is Going to be All Right - Derek Mahon ... Harlem Night Song - Langston Hughes   Come, Let us roam the night together Singing.

past islands vigorous. stag and hen parties shied, Scotch eggs and Pink Ladies The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes. a carrot for a nose, (some reported parsnip),

'"~ Janet Fitch, 'White Oleander', Poetry is the development of an exclamation.

I'd love to hear what you think! Could Asbestos Be A Hidden Danger of Extreme Weather? I love you. It has an ‘anti-title’ which refuses to comment on the content of the poem that follows. down an Arctic seaway And what he didn't spend each week he saved. Read it and see. drooped from a mouth, that was pure stroke-victim.

White Christmas - Simon Armitage For once it is a White Christmas, so white that the roads are impassable and my wife is snowbound in a town untroubled by tractor or snowplough. (Armitage is fond… Like the fluoride in the water, they'll make your soul impervious to the world's soft decay. in the meltwater drool. And what does the words impassable and snowbound also make the speaker situation sound. the Boundary Stone, that cock-eyed dice with its six dark holes, thimbles brimming with vinegar wine purging the plagued coins.

In May 2019, Simon Armitage (b. Lockdown by Simon Armitage. in the warp and weft of soggy cloth by the tailor’s hearth. ~ Leonard Cohen, Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard. (Armitage is fond of using such titles.) Home.

For Media & Rights Enquiries Only Literary Agent DGA (David Godwin Associates) 2nd floor, 40 Rosebery Avenue, ... 0207 240 9992 To enquire: philippa@davidgodwinassociates.co.uk. Simon Armitage. "They have to become the marrow in your bones. It opens with a casual ‘And’ (‘And if it snowed’), as if merely a continuation of something already in progress.

Everything about ‘Poem’ by Simon Armitage is understated. Yes, she was monstrous. These are the only ways I know it. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. in 1989 and quickly established himself as the most high-profile poet in … Fat as a bomb or a cannonball I’ve killed ... Poetry is just the evidence of life. ~Allen Ginsberg, Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them. ~Paul Engle, Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.

He was a post-graduate student at Manchester University where his MA thesis concerned the effects of television violence on young offenders. He earned a BA from Portsmouth University in geography, and an MS in social work from Manchester University, where he studied the impact of televised violence on young offenders. gone at the pelvis. Leave a comment by clicking on. of a passing cruise liner Hers is a song, On National Poetry Day, this is our favourite. He drifted south ~Paul Valery, Poetry lovers, loathers or newbies - I'd love to hear from you! In May, The Guardian presented a series of 20 original poems by various authors on the theme of climate change curated by the UK’s poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy. Here's a poem that uses structure and subject matter in an ingenious way to get its theme across. When I started posting love themed poems this week, I kept thinking what I would post today on Valentine's.