Alistair AppletonNov 2, 20221 minPoetryA Disused Shed in Co. Wexford/ Derek MahonThis poem by Mahon is a miracle. A shed in Ireland, abandoned during the Civil War in the 1920s, has been home for fifty years to a...
Alistair AppletonOct 18, 20222 minPoetryA Bird In the House / Robin BlaserThis poem, by the modernist San Francisco poet, Robin Blaser is the source of the word "otherous" (in the very first line) which we...
Alistair AppletonSep 5, 20221 minLGBTQ+Paul Hoover / House of Cedar, Rafters of FirHoover is not a poet I’m familiar with but another that I discovered on the excellent Poetry Foundation app. He is riffing on the imagery...
Alistair AppletonAug 15, 20222 minPoetryFrom "Out on the lawn, I lie in bed" / WH AudenA very Audenesque Auden poem from 1933 that undercuts the dreamy, chummy pastoral of the first few stanzas with an unsettling meditation...