Tag: zeugma

poetry appreciation

feeding the cats

Jun 11, 2020 #agency, #and yet, #and yettishness, #apathy, #bad, #chaos, #Daffodil Ministry, #despair, #Fanthorpe, #Feeding the Cats, #good, #hope, #horror, #juxtaposition, #Rosie Bailey, #RV Bailey, #Tintern Abbey, #UA Fanthorpe, #Wordsworth, #zeugma by Lucy Crispin

For once I don’t need to send you off somewhere else on the interweb to read this week’s poem. It’s given in full here on the site, by kind permission of its author, R[osie] V Bailey (I’m trying to sound casual about that but really I’m rather proud and thrilled). I’ve been wanting to write about ‘Feeding the Cats’ for a while but it seems particularly right for right now. Here it is:

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poetry appreciation

there’s this mood, too

May 14, 2020 #anger, #angry, #corona virus, #Covid 19, #crisis, #despair, #fear, #fearful, #frightened, #future, #grief, #hopeless, #Merwin, #sad, #Separation, #war, #When the War is Over, #WS Merwin, #zeugma by Lucy Crispin

That extra time we’re supposed to be having at the moment, during which we relax, read, knit ourselves cunning new kitchens, all that lot… It hasn’t been like that for me. I seem to have spent a startling amount of time doing I know not what. But one of the things I have managed to achieve, which I’ve been meaning to do for a long time, is get hold of some WS Merwin.

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