A Winter’s Tale
As winter closes in around us, it seems an appropriate time to consider poems about the coldest season, having done autumn a few weeks ago.
The Boys in the Backroom
This week’s poems celebrate the work of scientists and engineers who are often unrecognised and unremarkable, but who contribute so much to our lives through advances in medicine, technology and our understanding of the remarkable world in which we live.
For the Fallen
This week’s poems are chosen to mark Remembrance Day, and I have chosen extra poems because marking the sacrifice of millions across two World Wars and the many other conflicts in which soldiers have fallen in the service of their country seems to me to be very important.
A Measure of Spirits
This week’s choices are Hallowe’en-themed, evoking ghosts and other spirits.
On My Own
This week’s poems are chosen for all those who, like me, are finding they are spending even more time alone than they usually do. I confess that six months of enforced solitude and social separation have proven to be trying, and I expect the next six months of dark and cold days to be even more difficult. As someone who has to take extra care, I have had to avoid many gatherings and quizzes that I would normally have loved to attend. I have had to keep my distance when I would have preferred to join in, and that’s made me feel quite isolated, but better safe than sorry (or dead).
A Little Learning
This week’s poems celebrate the work of teachers, who instruct us in the traditional subjects starting with reading, writing and arithmetic and progressing to advanced physics, music, languages and humanities.
The Longest Time
This week’s poems are about eternity, and our human appreciation of it.
Forgive and Forget
This week’s poems are about remembering, forgetting and forgiving.