A Leave-Taking

Charles Swinburne says he’ll do anything for love – but does he mean it?

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I Hear An Army…

James Joyce suffers from terrible nightmares.

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Armies of ignorance conquer all in Matthew Arnold’s dark and disturbing vision of the world.

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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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Charlotte Smith negotiates the shifting sands of life in this dark and stormy sonnet.

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Gerard Manley Hopkins explores what it feels like to be trapped in your skin.

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David Constantine wonders if there isn’t something more to life than meets the eye.

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Liz Lochhead casts a spell in this magical realist poem.

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William Cowper visits a woody riverbank by which he passed many pleasant childhood days… to find it irrevocably changed.

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Isobel Dixon shows us that older really does mean wiser as she reminisces ruefully about her childhood.

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