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Exploring the world with Tennyson to overcome anxiety: “for my purpose holds to sail beyond the sunset”

Lucy 2016-11-26T10:24:00+00:00

On going about your own life when a loved one is suffering: W. H. Auden’s “Musée des Beaux Arts”

Lucy 2016-02-10T06:51:00+00:00

Nick Cave’s chosen “sad poem of loss”: “The Widower in the Country” by Les Murray

Lucy 2015-07-16T13:18:00+00:00

Allen Ginsberg on never working again (and living a “literary and quiet city-hermit existence” instead)

Lucy 2015-06-19T16:23:00+00:00

‘Feast on your life’: Tom Hiddleston on Derek Walcott’s “Love After Love” for accepting ourselves

Lucy 2015-04-19T09:16:00+00:00

Navigating a Confusing World with Whitman’s “Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances”

Lucy 2015-03-07T22:49:00+00:00

Reading W.B. Yeats’s “An Irish Airman Foresees His Death” as a Meditation on Life

Lucy 2014-10-01T16:49:00+00:00

Poetry for Letting Go: In Blackwater Woods by Mary Oliver

Lucy 2014-08-21T08:53:00+00:00

On Visiting Dove Cottage, William Wordsworth’s Home, to Better Enjoy His Poetry

Lucy 2014-08-16T09:30:00+00:00

“Let My Country Awake” by Rabindranath Tagore to Inspire Individual and Social Change

Lucy 2014-06-19T09:12:00+00:00

Keeping Poets Alive: Why You Should Know About Jack Clemo

Lucy 2014-06-04T09:43:00+00:00

Robert Frost: A Homesick Poet Stuck Mid-Atlantic?

Lucy 2014-06-02T09:23:00+00:00

Facing Death With Poetry: How Chidiock Tichborne Wrote His Own Elegy

Lucy 2014-05-16T10:30:00+00:00

Poems That Make Grown Men Cry by Anthony and Ben Holden (and My Own Choice)

Lucy 2014-05-09T15:01:00+00:00

Regeneration by Pat Barker: Shell Shock, War Poets, and Great Friendships

Lucy 2013-06-17T10:48:00+00:00

Edward Thomas: A Poet Who Spoke of England, Depression and Not Belonging

Lucy 2013-06-10T12:56:00+00:00

Bibliotherapy and TV’s Mad Men: Frank O’Hara’s ‘Mayakovsky’ and Meditations in an Emergency

Lucy 2013-05-12T20:11:00+00:00

Bibliotherapy & Shakespeare’s Sonnet 55: Keep Calm and Memorise Poetry

Lucy 2013-05-07T11:59:00+00:00

The End of the World, Again, and John Donne

Lucy 2012-12-21T10:27:00+00:00

The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng: Finding Strength in Poetry

Lucy 2012-12-18T14:15:00+00:00

BBC Sports Personality 2012 – An Edgar Guest Poem, Virgil & Courage

Lucy 2012-12-16T22:30:00+00:00

“Two Spains”: León Felipe and Antonio Machado

Lucy 2012-11-29T20:32:00+00:00

Walking Home by Simon Armitage: Wordsworth; Gawain; Above Ickornshaw, Black Huts

Lucy 2012-11-26T14:32:00+00:00

Life as a Journey – Ithaca by Constantine P. Cavafy

Lucy 2012-11-21T18:26:00+00:00

A Trip to Cornwall: The Eden Project and Poetry

Lucy 2012-11-03T08:18:00+00:00

The Poem M Reads in Skyfall: A Quote From Tennyson’s Ulysses

Lucy 2012-10-28T09:07:00+00:00

Antonio Machado’s “Recuerdos” and the Healing Power of Nature

Lucy 2012-10-27T12:04:00+00:00

A Translation: The Jump (El salto) by León Felipe

Lucy 2012-10-15T16:07:00+00:00

A Favourite Poem: I Am Very Bothered – Simon Armitage

Lucy 2012-10-08T17:31:00+00:00

The Faerie Queene, Healing PTSD, and Wilfred Owen

Lucy 2012-10-03T18:25:00+00:00

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