Peter Porter pushes back against consumer-culture in this uniquely un-poetic poem.
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Author: Poetry Prof
Poetry Prof is the work of Doug Sillett, from Somerset in the southwest of the UK, a place who's greatest claim to poetry fame is as the site of inspiration for Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
Night Sweat
Sink or swim in the sea of Robert Lowell’s obsession.
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Request to a Year
Judith Wright knows what it takes to be a successful artist: her great-great-grandmother showed her the way.
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The Telephone Call
Fleur Adcock reminds us that, in the final reckoning, we’re all winners; we just need to remember to appreciate it.
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Ozymandias
Pride comes before a fall in Percy Shelley’s smashing sonnet.
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The Man with Night Sweats
Thom Gunn gives form to fear in a time of crisis.
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He Never Expected Much
Don’t look back in anger, advises Thomas Hardy; but is he hiding deeper regrets?
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The Spirit is too Blunt an Instrument
Anne Stevenson’s philosophical poem asks what it means to be truly alive.
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On Finding a Small Fly Crushed in a Book
Charles Tennyson Turner finds himself unexpectedly moved by a tiny tragedy.
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