Wednesday, 25 March 2020

Poems from the Backroom 8: Two brand new plague poems and Nan Shepherd


Today folks we have two brand new poems responding to our ongoing troubles. Both examine the roles human beings are playing: in Vaccine Stuart Paterson ruminates on our current behaviours, in New Old Age I have a think, sceptically, about whether all this will change our attitudes in the long term. We end things up with a gorgeous poem by Nan Shepherd on the power of love. More about these poets here:

https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poet/stuart-paterson/
https://www.hughmcmillanwriter.co.uk/
https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poet/nan-shepherd/

Tomorrow we were due to hear Patrick Kavanagh but since tomorrow is my birthday I think we shall
read some birthday poems together! See you then

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