…in ‘Search for My Tongue’ which alternates between the two languages. The complex status of English – its beauties and colonial implications – are also conveyed in the moving ironies…

…search for an appropriate dummy” and certainly an interrogation of voice is at the heart of The Dream Songs‘ restless energy. They concern a character called ‘Henry’ who sometimes speaks…

…search for identity. In so doing ‘the majesty and mystery in ordinary lives’ are brought vividly to life. ‘Myths used to be “the stories we used to explain ourselves,”’ Tempest…

…specimen of the life outside your own.” – Ted Hughes “Go into yourself. Search for the reason that bids you to write. This above all, ask yourself in the stillest…

As a successful military adventurer and explorer, author and poet, Ralegh was a significant figure in the court of Queen Elizabeth I. He took expeditions to the New World, searching…

…no small sense of urgency; rummaging through our modern lives in search of deeper understanding. Clare Pollard’s Favourite Poetry Sayings: “A poet, qua poet, has only one political duty, namely,…

…of modern life and an ongoing search for joy that he believes all humans experience. The critic Ron Sharp says of Wallace-Crabbe’s Telling a Hawk from a Handsaw: ‘This sometimes…

…In ‘Speech Balloon’, which energetically opens this Archive recording, charting the spread of a phrase from one culture to another, you experience Dharker’s restless search for meaning and identity; what…

Charles Wright [b. 1935] is a poet whose work “catches the visible world at that endless moment before it trails into eternity” [Philip Levine]. This search for transcendence has sustained…

…search for ex-lovers in ‘Goooogle’, to the cosmic mistaken identity of ‘NGC3949’, a love poem which takes its title from a galaxy in Ursa Major, whose formation mirrors that of…

…search for a firm identity remains hopeful and even celebratory: it is as if through the exuberance of her descriptions she comes to form an appreciation of a future in…

…to its surreal tonalities in search of an alternative language. In an interview he says: ‘How does one write about an uncle in a wheelchair in the language of skylarks…

…Award. She currently lives in the UK. In her poem ‘Stroke’ which describes the loss of language suffered by her mother, Duran states “I go in search of what is…

…to a global conflict, in terms which are slant yet grounded and unalienating, is striking: […] a luminous tear carried on the back of a beetle went backwards and forwards…