Feats of Arms
This week’s choice is “Faithless Nelly Gray” by Thomas Hood, a tour-de-force in double meanings and puns.
So Glad We Agree
This week’s choice is “You Will Be Hearing From Us Shortly” by U.A. Fanthorpe, which evokes the feeling of a hostile job interview.
We are conscious ourselves
Of the need for a candidate with precisely
The right degree of immaturity.
So glad we agree
— U.A. Fanthorpe (1929—2009)
Oh, To Be In England
This week’s choice is “Home Thoughts from Abroad” by Robert Browning which seems appropriate now that April has arrived.
Well-Heeled Poets
World Poetry Day is held every year on 21 March, so I have chosen one of my favourites this week: Wendy Cope’s “Engineers’ Corner”.
The Heart’s Need
This week’s choice is “The Lonely Farmer” by the Reverend R.S. Thomas.
Who Came Knocking
This week’s choice is “Someone” by Walter de la Mare.
A Famous Victory
This week’s choice is another anti-war poem to mark the continuing invasion of Ukraine. It is After Blenheim by Robert Southey.
Death’s Grey Land
This week’s choice is Dreamers, by Siegfried Sassoon, and I have chosen it to mark the unprovoked assault by Russia on Ukraine.
My Mother’s Knee
This week’s choice is “Tribute to Mother” by John Greenleaf Whittier and celebrates my mother’s birthday.
Not a Valentine
A poem that isn’t a Valentine message–or is it?