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POEM A DAY: ELLA FREARS
Happy book birthday to Shine, Darling by Ella Frears, one of our PBS Summer Recommendations. For those of us in lock...
POEM A DAY: MARY RUEFLE
The
Pen
Was going to try to join us there later
Provided the fever did not break out
- Mary Ruefle, A l...
POEM A DAY: GARDEN
‘You will hear
the curlew's song and it will wake something.
It will be a sort of beginning’
Today’s #keepcalmandrea...
POEM A DAY: HAPPINESS
Happiness. It comes on
Unexpectedly - Raymond Carver
#keepcalmandreadpoems #saturdaymorning #coffeeandpapers
From ...
POEM A DAY: HOLY ISLAND
Happy Easter to our global poetry family! Hope you’re all staying safe and well at home. Here is a poem to bring a g...
POEM A DAY: JAMES SCRUTON
"For this uncertain, only life". A wonderful extra Easter poem of the day chosen by our poet and PBS Selector Andrew...
HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE
HAPPY BIRTHDAY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
This week marked the 250th birthday of the poet William Wordsworth. There's no be...
POEM A DAY: RILKE
Silent friends of the many distances, here’s an affirmative classic from Rilke’s sonnets to Orpheus to start your da...
POEM A DAY: YVES BONNEFOY
‘Thus we walk lighted’ - Today’s #keepcalmandreadpoems offering is this lit beauty by the French poet Yves Bonnefoy....
POEM A DAY: OCEAN VUONG
you carve & carveUntil a coin of light appears& you get to look in, at last,On happiness...
- From Night Sk...
SUNDAY FUN: SHELFIE FOUND POEMS
Today’s stay-at-home Sunday fun - make a found poem using the titles of books on your shelf. It’s oddly addictive an...
POEM A DAY: W B YEATS
‘And I shall have some peace there, For peace comes dropping slow’ - Here’s a soothing classic by W.B. Yeats to ...