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POEM A DAY: A QUIET JOY
It’s Friday and we hope you find time for this quiet joy from the Bloodaxe anthology Being Human, available to order...
POEM A DAY: MICHAEL ROSEN
We're relieved to hear reports that the much loved children's writer and poet Michael Rosen is recovering from Coron...
POEM A DAY: WILL HARRIS
‘...Here. No
There. I’ve been missing you.’
- Today’s #poemaday is dedicated to all our poetry friends worldwide ...
ISOLATION PROMOTION
Dear poetry friends and PBS members,
We hope you're all keeping safe and well in these unsettling times. We just wan...
POEM A DAY: SAFE SPACE
Wash your hands. Rub soap into foamInto lost hands...
- Safe Space II by Mary Jean Chan from her PBS Recommendation ...
POEM A DAY: MAYA ANGELOU
CAGED BIRD
MAYA ANGELOU
A free bird leaps
on the back of the wind
and floats downstream
till the current en...
POEM A DAY: SNOW
Today, snow. ‘World is suddener than we fancy it’. #keepcalmandreadpoems. Check out our isolation promotion and jo...
POEM A DAY: BLACK BEANS
A song for the restless this afternoon by the German poet Sarah Kirsch #keepcalmandreadpoems #stayathome #timeforac...
POEM A DAY: CHERRY BLOSSOM
This short and sweet #poemaday by the French poet Eugene Guillevic was inspired by this blossoming beauty in my ba...
POEM A DAY: ILYA KAMINSKY
‘We lived happily during the war’
Today’s #PoemADay #keepcalmandreadpoems comes from Ilya Kaminsky’s breathtaking co...
ISOLATION PROMOTION
To help you through the lock-down we've launched a special SELF-ISOLATION PROMOTION to bring PBS Members even more po...
POEM A DAY: THE LIGHTKEEPER BY CAROLYN FORCHE
‘Nothing / to be afraid.... Go toward the light always, be without ships’
Today’s #keepcalmandreadpoems #PoemADay c...