If you think that getting married means living happily-ever-after, Dennis Scott will probably want to have a word.
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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.
The Caged Skylark
Gerard Manley Hopkins explores what it feels like to be trapped in your skin.
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Rising Five
Norman Nicholson warns us not to wish our lives away.
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Watching For Dolphins
David Constantine wonders if there isn’t something more to life than meets the eye.
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Carpet Weavers, Morocco
Looking at life differently in Carol Rumens’ challenging poem
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Muliebrity
After many years away from the country of her birth, Sujata Bhatt wonders if it’s finally time to share her memories of India.
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Storyteller
Liz Lochhead casts a spell in this magical realist poem.
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The Poplar-Field
William Cowper visits a woody riverbank by which he passed many pleasant childhood days… to find it irrevocably changed.
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Plenty
Isobel Dixon shows us that older really does mean wiser as she reminisces ruefully about her childhood.
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You Will Know When You Get There
Allen Curnow suggests that there’s a right time to die in this tough, but rewarding, poem.
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