Poems

Some thoughts on Christmas cards and a poem by Wendy Cope.

Some thoughts on ‘Rooms’ by Charlotte Mew and on the resonance of other people’s truths in poetry.

‘Lament of an Arawak child’ by Pamela Mordecai – a poem about the genocide that started when Columbus invaded the Caribbean.

‘If I am wrong’ by Mike Finn

Lest We Forget… what war does to the men and women we send to fight them – ‘Combat Eyes’ by Curtis D. Bennett

The quiet desperation of COVID poetry

Perhaps I’m taking a Humpty Dumpty approach to poetry but…

‘There’s A Point You Reach’ by Mike Finn

Some thoughts on ‘Welltread’ by Carol Ann Duffy and my own experience of being caned.