Tag: grace

poetry appreciation

coming to America, going not so well…

Dec 9, 2021 #circumlocution, #circumlocution office, #compassion, #emptahy, #envy, #evasiveness, #fear, #form, #grace, #hatred, #immigration, #injustice, #loathing, #paranoia, #passive, #poet laureate, #power, #powerlessness, #racism, #smith, #tone, #Tracy k Smith, #USA by Lucy Crispin

And now, as the Pythons used to say, for something completely different. Yes, it’s another another arrival in America, courtesy of Tracy K Smith, a former Poet Laureate; but it’s very different from last week’s. Read ‘The United States Welcomes you‘ and shiver.

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beside the seaside

Sep 13, 2020 #beach, #birds, #grace, #holiday, #Maccaig, #mindfulness, #nature, #Norman MacCaig, #poem, #poetry, #presence, #Rhu Mor, #seaside by Lucy Crispin

I am lucky enough to be retreating from Real Life for a while: a week (ish) away near the Galloway coast in a house where there’s no internet and only a very feeble, intermittent phone signal. So this column will be on holiday along with me, though back as usual in a fortnight’s time. To give you a virtual visit to the sort of place I’ll be, and a vision of the sorts of creatures I hope to be gazing upon, here’s the vivid and wonderful ‘Rhu Mor‘ by Norma MacCaig. (Unfortunately I can’t find this anywhere on the internet with the poet’s own layout on the page, so we’ll have to make do with this. As consolation, you can hear MacCaig himself reading it here.)

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