Poems

Mike Finn’s poems

Some thoughts on ‘Thaw’ by Edward Thomas and on not being a cawing crow any more

Some thoughts on Catechisms and Christina Rossetti’s ‘What Are Heavy?’

Some thoughts on ‘the smell of distance’ and a poem by Eleanor Farjeon

Some thoughts on surfing poetry late at night and a poem by Billy Collins

‘Dorothy Wordsworth’s Christmas Birthday’ by Carol Ann Duffy

‘Barnacles’ by Mike Finn

Irrational wants and a poem by Ada Limón

Perhaps books are my ‘Wild Geese’? Some thoughts on a poem by Mary Oliver

Some thoughts on Victor Hugo’s exhortation to ‘Be like the bird’