Percy Bysshe Shelley exhorts us to rise up in this powerful poetical polemic.
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Category: Songs of Ourselves Volume 1
Not Waving But Drowning
Stevie Smith asks if we couldn’t all do a little more to help from time to time.
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Little Boy Crying
Mervyn Morris debates if it’s ever right to smack a child.
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Mid-Term Break
Seamus Heaney shares with us a sad memory from his childhood.
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Caged Bird
Maya Angelou explores suffering, inequality and a people’s refusal to give up in this hard-hitting poem.
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The Three Fates
Rosemary Dobson’s unique backwards-poem reminds us that, however much we might want to, we can’t change the past.
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Marrysong
If you think that getting married means living happily-ever-after, Dennis Scott will probably want to have a word.
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Rising Five
Norman Nicholson warns us not to wish our lives away.
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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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