A journey through a visionary landscape, exceptionally bright in icy weather, conjures a surreal semi-mythical world
A journey through a visionary landscape, exceptionally bright in icy weather, conjures a surreal semi-mythical world
Winter Walk
She left the hut and bright log fire at noon
And walked outside on crisp white winter snow
To find the iced slopes shadowed like the moon,
From an almost whimsical beginning, these verses on wishing to overcome mortality grow lyrical and deeply moving
A collective dash for shelter in the city takes on a spiritual, near-religious power
The moon becomes the witty image of an isolated and contemptuously neglected elderly relation
From the hush of medieval lullabies to striking poems about Grenfell, great authors know how to deploy the power of silence
This haunting poem depicts an elusive, dangerous figure of overwhelming destructive power
A melancholy December vision in Liverpool invokes a Dickensian ghost with more worldly but still warm realism
