No Dealings With Diabolus
This week’s choice is Rudyard Kipling’s The Holy War, which draws parallels between John Bunyan’s book and the global situation in 1917.
Which In Our Case We Have Not Got
To mark Remembrance Day, I have chosen “Naming of Parts” by Henry Reed.
They That Fought For England
This week’s choice is “Elegy in a Country Churchyard” by G.K. Chesterton which I have chosen to mark the 80th anniversary of D Day.
In Picardy It Was
This week’s poem is “Gethsemane” by Rudyard Kipling and I have chosen it to mark Remembrance Day.
Fabulous Steeds
This week’s poem is “The Horses” by Edwin Muir, and I have chosen it to reflect the current world situation.
Feats of Arms
This week’s choice is “Faithless Nelly Gray” by Thomas Hood, a tour-de-force in double meanings and puns.
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.
Our Fearful Trip
This week’s poem is by Walt Whitman and is a coda to last week’s choice in that it references the end of another bloody conflict: the American Civil War.
Because Our Fathers Lied
This week’s selection of poems by Rudyard Kipling marks Remembrance Day.
We Made an Expedition
Today is National Poetry Day, started by William Sieghart in 1994 and organised by the Forward Arts Foundation.