A perfect aubade poem by Czesław Miłosz.
At Dawn
How enduring, how we need durability.
The sky before sunlight is soaked with light.
(...)
Only this moment at dawn is real to me.
The bygone lives are like my own past life, uncertain.
early warning
Shining a bright Book Spotlight on Wendy J. Dunn's captivating novel, The Duty of Daughters.
Meet young Katherine of Aragon as she embarks on a life-changing journey!
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Diane Seuss, in strong form, from her recent collection Modern Poetry
Little Song
You can't stay vigilant and remain alive
Or infinite vigilance is a kind of death.
A love poem by Wisława Szymborska.
I am too near
I am too near to be dreamt by him.
...
Never again will I die so lightly,
so much beyond my flesh, so inadvertently
as once in his dream.
Excited that Outposts 1 arrived with three of my poems, including two pictured here. Congratulations to all and gratitude to its editor Clare Morris for resurrecting the UK’s oldest independent poetry journal! 💐
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Pietà Mary speaks They will say that I am just a troubled mother. They will say I raised a madman for the ages, his wild heart a curse to every Caesar. They will say I couldn't make a world untorn. I gave my life, I gave my death to make him. And you, there, stranger in your own arms, a great thing has been ripening inside you. Look at him, look at my life now. It's time, it's time, it's time now. It doesn't matter how the story ends, what wreckage. Love so hard you help God to be born. —Joseph Fasano
In our insane world, I kneel before this figure, and I listen. 🕯️
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Poem - 'Postscript' by Seamus Heaney
An Ars Poetica by Heaney exploring the limits of language & the power of lived experience, paradoxically by acknowledging poetry's own limitations
Poetry doesn't create meaning but points toward moments when meaning erupts unexpectedly
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Poem -'The Poetry Bug' by Collette Bryce
A gently subversive Ars Poetica personifying poetry as a bug & how it takes hold of the reader
Beneath its playful surface she explores, with affectionate irony, the uneasy intimacy between the poet & language
Once the “bug” is caught, there is no cure
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Reread The Iron Man this week, which inspired the poem Earth Giant from my collection. I think this was likely the 1st writing by Ted Hughes I encountered. I can remember reading it in Primary School but not sure if I read it or saw The Iron Giant animated film 1st. It really is a perfect fairy tale
I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed; And on the pedestal, these words appear: My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!" Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.
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Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Poem 'Poetry Reading' by Linda Pastan
A night of firsts – the 1st mic night at Infuse Coleraine & so many 1st time performances
The magic of love & words in the room
This reflects on the vulnerability created when a poet reads to an audience, the relationship between speaker & listener, exposure & transformation
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I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an ear against its hive. I say drop a mouse into a poem and watch him probe his way out, or walk inside the poem's room and feel the walls for a light switch. I want them to waterski across the surface of a poem waving at the author's name on the shore. But all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it. They begin beating it with a hose to find out what it really means.
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Introduction to Poetry by Billy Collins
Live Encounters Poetry & Writing (April edn) is out! Excited to have three poems included - gratitude to the indefatigable
Mark Ulyseas🙏 and congratulations to all! 💐liveencounters.net/2026/03/22/live-encounte...
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Today is #WorldPoetryDay, in honor of which, I'm posting a sampling of some of the best poetry from the first two years of Forgotten Ground Regained. This one is from the Fall, 2024 issue:
"The Translator, Working Late", by Maryann Corbett
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Poem - 'Happiness' by Raymond Carver
Here the mundane becomes meaningful through attentive observation
Genuine unsentimental insight
Happiness isn’t big events, often it's simple companionship & laughter. A small moment, briefly illuminated, when we stop long enough to notice it
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Tomorrow (March 17th) is St. Patrick's day.
In honor of St. Patrick's day, I present Kathryn Ann Hill's alliterative verse version of "The Prayer of St. Patrick".
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Self-discovery in Tudor England, times two
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What a wonderful way to start my writing week! Absolutely thrilled with this review by the brilliant Sarah Johnson, published on her Reading the Past blog and substack! Thank you, Sarah!
Honoured to have poetry in Issue 1 of ‘Outposts’, Britain’s longest-running independent poetry magazine, founded in 1944 by Howard Sergeant, now stylishly resurrected by editor extraordinaire, Clare Morris! It will be launched later this month...📜 🎉
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The first day of the London Book Fair highlighted how the industry is weathering political and economic uncertainty. Plus, Audible announced its expansion into 11 new territories and Simon & Schuster’s future under its new CEO was a hot topic.
The AustLit record for Alexis Wright. In the right-hand top corner, an orange box is circled in red. The box reads Follow and includes a space for an email address.
AustLit's tip for the day: did you know you can follow AustLit records? You can even follow your own record! Then you'll know exactly when we add your latest works to the database. You'll only be alerted to substantial updates (i.e., if we add a new work, not if we adjust a comma in your biography).
Issue Seven of #TheMarrowPoetry is open for submissions! Please read our submission guidelines carefully and submit (the earlier the better) at: themarrowpoetry.com/submissions
We're keen to read your work! 🤩
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Thrilled to share Issue Six of The Marrow Poetry journal, published today - 23 fabulous poems from around the world and an editorial by Judith Beveridge!
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To all the generous donors to The Marrow Poetry, thank you - we’re now able to pay contributors for our upcoming Issue Six! 🙏
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