Jane Clark and Barbara Vellacott review the poetry series we presented during the Covid-19 lockdown, March – June 2020
Poetry engages the imagination, and can touch us deeply, body and soul; it can bring us to a sense of our common humanity
Seamus Heaney | From The Cure at Troy
“… So hope for a great sea-change
On the far side of revenge.
Believe that further shore
Is reachable from here…”
Kathleen Raine | The Instrument
“… And it may be that soul extends
Organs of sense
Tuned to waves here scarcely heard…”
Ted Hughes | A Green Mother
“Why are you afraid?
In the house of the dead are many cradles.
The earth is a busy hive of heavens…”
John Milton | “Adam’s Lament” from Paradise Lost
“O miserable mankind, to what fall
Degraded, to what wretched state reserved!…”
Elizabeth Jennings | Song of Time
“Deliver time and let it go
Under wild clouds and passive moon.
Once it was fast, now it is slow…”