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POEM A DAY: RILKE
Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final
- An extract from Rilke’s B...
POEM A DAY: TS ELIOT
Do I dare to eat a peach? Today’s daily poem is an extract from the Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by our founder T...
POEM A DAY: WHAT IS HAPPINESS
What is happiness?... we remember it and it reminds us.
- Rutger Kopland, Memories of the Unknown, Maclehose Press.
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POEM A DAY: MORNING
‘A huge sun greater than the light’- Morning by George Seferis A poem to start your day with some Greek sunshine. Fo...
MEET ELLA FREARS
Ella Frears is a poet and visual artist. Her pamphlet, Passivity, Electricity, Acclivity was published by Goldsmiths...
POEM A DAY: WALLACE STEVENS
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
The house was quiet because it had to be.
- Wallace Steven...
POEM A DAY: ELLA FREARS
'How will we go on after, I thought'
- Ella Frears, Shine, Darling
Join us tonight at 7pm for a poetry reading by ...
HAPPY BOOK BIRTHDAY TO ELLA FREARS
Happy book birthday to another of our PBS Summer Recommendations SHINE, DARLING by Ella Frears! To celebrate its offi...
POEM A DAY: ALICE OSWALD
'It’s night and somebody’s
Pushing his mower home To the moon'
- Marginalia at the Edge of the Evening by Alice Osw...
POEM A DAY: SARAH BROOM
Now - are you here? Are you here?
- from Tigers at Awhitu by Sarah Broom
Join the Poetry Book Society here for a ye...
POEM A DAY: BHANU KAPIL
A door opened in the side
Of sheer rock I stepped through it.
Images of an alternative life
Filled my psyche
Lik...