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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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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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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Allen Curnow suggests that there’s a right time to die in this tough, but rewarding, poem.
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Watch as James K. Baxter’s eponymous Farmhand refuses the call to adventure in this poem from New Zealand.
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning attempts the impossible: counting the ways one person can love another.
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Who is the mysterious Lucy in this simple elegy by William Wordsworth?
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