Tag: Poetry
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Into My Own: The Misanthropy of Robert Frost
Poems are not social in any normal sense of the word. You have to spend a lot of time alone to write or read them. The reader might share them or even read them to someone else (it does happen) and you can say that this is a kind of socialness. Here we get a…
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Pandemic Poetry
Poets are often thought of as more solitary than most, but a poem is never entirely solitary – it’s a signal sent up into the sky, trusting someone will receive it. Hoping, anyway. Perhaps that’s one reason why they are everywhere right now. Simon Armitage has already written his first Coronavirus poem. You can follow…
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