Author Archives: Matt Willing

This week’s poem is about love, and it is Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “Sonnet from the Portuguese XIV”.

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This week’s choice is the song “In Pursuit of Happiness” by The Divine Comedy and it marks a significant positive change in my personal happiness.

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This week’s poem is “Gethsemane” by Rudyard Kipling and I have chosen it to mark Remembrance Day.

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This week’s choice is short but good and it is “The Peace of Wild Things” by Wendell Berry.

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For this Hallowe’en season, I have chosen a poem by my favourite ghost story writer, M.R. James: “Living Night”, also known as “The Livermere Poem”

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I originally chose another poem for this week, but “The ‘Ole in the Ark” by Marriott Edgar seems a lot more appropriate as Storm Babet continues to flood the country.

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My dear stepson Tom proposed to Charl this week and she said “yes”, so this week’s theme has to be love so I have chosen “Tell Me the Truth About Love” by W.H. Auden.

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This week’s choice is “A Valediction” by John Masefield which I chose from a book of his verse I found at Barter Books in Alnwick.

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This week’s poem is “The Pylons” by Stephen Spender, which I have chosen for my brother-in-law Colin, whose birthday falls this week.

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This week’s choice is the work of Michael Flanders and Donald Swann and in Flanders’ own words, it’s a “song of unending domestic upheaval” as is so often the case when “The Gas-Man Cometh”.

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