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Category: Poem of the Month

Category: Poem of the Month

Poem of The Month – The New Colossus, by Emma Lazarus

on September 3, 2019March 11, 2020 by Margaret

This month’s poem is inspired by both a trip during August to Northern Ireland, my journey of DNA discovery, and the depressing news cycle we watched when we (rarely) turned on the TV to catch the news while taking in the magnificent Causeway coast. I recently had my DNA ancestry traced on 23andMe and discovered that […]

Poem of The Month – Cave Hill, by Alice Milligan

on July 6, 2019July 6, 2019 by Margaret

We lived on a road at the base of the massive outcrop in the picture above which is, of course, Cave Hill. Straddling the skyline of North Belfast, it was immortalised by Jonathan Swift as a Sleeping Giant. The best panoramic views of the city and Belfast lough are from the peak by McArt’s Fort, or […]

Poem of the Month -Neither an Elegy Nor a Manifesto, by John Hewitt

on March 26, 2019March 26, 2019 by Margaret 3 Comments
Helen's Bay, County Down, Northern Ireland

I’ve just discovered the poetry of Belfast-born writer John Hewitt, which is a shocking oversight for someone writing a novel based in Belfast during the Troubles.  But then his name is somewhat overshadowed by those other dazzling Northern Irish luminaries:  Seamus Heaney, Louis MacNeice, CS Lewis and Frank Ormsby. I read the poem below and […]

Poem of The Month – Naming of Parts, by Henry Reed

on February 21, 2019March 26, 2019 by Margaret

This month’s poem of the month came to me during a work meeting recently; it was a somewhat attenuated review of some annual targets, and the use of jargon and corporate buzz words led my gaze to fall from the screen and out of the window to the street below. Students from the nearby university […]

Poem of the Month – The Journey, by Mary Oliver

on January 8, 2019March 26, 2019 by Margaret

I’ve just created this new regular feature for 2019, after re-reading some of my favourite poems; it occurred to me that I’d discovered many of them by browsing around online on all sorts of sites, literary and otherwise. Some of these poems have become touchstones in my life,  and I revisit them regularly to refresh […]

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