Two sonnets absorb with calm clarity a boy’s anguish at his mother’s loss
Two sonnets absorb with calm clarity a boy’s anguish at his mother’s loss
My Mother
Reg wished me to go with him to the field,
I paused because I did not want to go;
But in her quiet way she made me yield
The moon becomes the witty image of an isolated and contemptuously neglected elderly relation
An exploration of what constitutes the literary arts – plus all the ‘troubled hearts’ and demons that accompany it – through the…
A single missing word in the 1902 poem sparks a deeper look at rhythm, dialect and longing
A landscape of illusory peace is depicted just before the guns of battle reach it in the first world war
Words of stern moral advice to a besotted young man are delivered with a brisk and even sunny touch
From an almost whimsical beginning, these verses on wishing to overcome mortality grow lyrical and deeply moving
