The shocking news of Prof Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s demise reached me on the night of Wednesday this week, in the deep stillness of the night.The somber message came through the sorrowful voice of Prof ...

It bridged the worlds of poetry and reality, allowing someone to confront their very real grief in a safer space where their ...

Over the last half-century, British poets including Philip Larkin and Andrew Motion have driven a ‘lawnmower poetry microgenre’, using the machine to explore childhood, masculinity, violence, ...

A: As I was writing this, one of my closest friends died, and so I started writing elegy poems to her ... distance that I felt from my friend after death, and from other people, by technological ...

Elegy for Opportunity is a poetry book by Natalie Lim ... lover and nature, mother and death, work-person and artist, fables and confidences, limits and new reaches, home and escape, city ...

Burns described the elegy as, 'just mediocre'. death regret future The first recorded meteorite strike in Scotland, took place on April 5th, 1804, at High Possil in Glasgow. In today’s poem too ...

Next work: Elegy On The Death of Sir James Hunter Blair This is an epitaph by Robert Burns. It is read here by Tom Fleming. This is actually a mock-elegy and the subject is Burns himself.

A tome of significant poems ... “death floats about us”. In Lockdown: Tim Pride, 1965-2020, the special grief of “attending” a funeral online provides, as cold comfort, the opportunity for ...