If you feel like you’re missing that spark of inspiration, go whale-watching with Peter Reading.
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Tag: Songs of Ourselves Anthology
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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Stormcock in Elder
Muse, angel, herald, companion, spirit guide. Ruth Pitter explores the significance of a seemingly ordinary bird in this lovely poem.
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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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Written Near a Port on a Dark Evening
Charlotte Smith negotiates the shifting sands of life in this dark and stormy sonnet.
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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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The Caged Skylark
Gerard Manley Hopkins explores what it feels like to be trapped in your skin.
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