poems
Summer Reading: Two Transcendent Poems About Public Transportation
Order The Memory Palace book now, dear listener. On Bookshop.org , on Amazon.com , on Barnes & Noble , or directly from Random House . Or order the audiobook at…
Dana Gioia on Poetry, Death and Mortality
When he was a child, poet Dana Gioia's mother would come home from a long day of work and recite poems while she cleaned. It was a way, he realized later, for h…
‘Egrets, While War’: Poet Tishani Doshi’s most existential and reflective work yet
The poems place everyday objects alongside images of brutality and war to emphasise the absurdity of continuing one’s mundane life as the world falls apart.
Sunday book review – Spirits of the Place by Nigel Pearce
This is a 100-page book of poems. At the back there are a dozen poems, written for each month, and comprising ‘A Commuter’s Calendar’, pace John Clare, which I …
