Poems from Oby, by George MacBeth
A few weeks ago I shared here my discovery that the tiny settlement of Oby in the Norfolk Broads had a dual literary heritage – the setting for Sylvia Townsend … Continue reading
A Norfolk Literary Crossroads (a Vulpes Libris Random)
Sylvia Townsend Warner’s novel The Corner That Held Them (which I love with a passion – though it does divide opinion, as Bookfox Simon will attest) is set in the … Continue reading
Bilbo’s Last Song by J R R Tolkien and Pauline Baynes
I’ve just moved house for the 25th and (I hope) last time. When you move house that often there are, almost inevitably, boxes which you just never get around to … Continue reading
Re-reading Lorca in Andalucía
When Bookfox Jackie declared the latest Poetry Week on Vulpes Libris, I had my response ready made. I had just been on holiday in Andalucía, and it had inspired me … Continue reading
Collected Poems, by Ted Hughes
Today, Vulpes Libris welcomes Alan Parker, writer of our second chosen piece from our Write For Us! competition. Thank you, Alan! The Collected Poems of Ted Hughes There are books … Continue reading
Coming Up on Vulpes Libris
Today’s fox ought to be the elusive Thought Fox, as you will see, and here s/he is – a midnight fox, if not leaving footprints in the snow. It’s a … Continue reading
A poem found on the Road to Nowhere – Norman Nicholson’s ‘Rising Five’.
Millom in Cumbria was once a rural community with a scattered population that relied heavily on farming and fishing to scratch a living. All of that changed forever in the … Continue reading
Poetry of the First World War: An Anthology
Edited by Tim Kendall “There are strange Hells within the minds War made …” Ivor Gurney. ~:~ Up until very recently had anyone asked me to recommend just one book … Continue reading
Kenneth Rexroth and his ‘Poems From The Greek Anthology’
I know I should have heard of Kenneth Rexroth, but I hadn’t. When I first heard a few lines of his read out, a translation of a Latin verse, I … Continue reading
Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost
This poem is probably most familiar from S.E. Hinton’s first teen novel The Outsiders and the later film based upon it. I was aware of the poem before that, but … Continue reading
Poetry Week on VL
Welcome to our 6th Annual Poetry Week! Every Spring we celebrate this overlooked art form and we continue that tradition. This year we have very famous poets and some unfamiliar … Continue reading
The Akeing Heart
This is Evelyn, writing in 1949 to her lover and life partner Elizabeth, on the occasion of Elizabeth’s journey to England from the USA, to visit Valentine, Elizabeth’s lover. Valentine … Continue reading
T S Eliot International Summer School 2013
By David Boyd 2013 was I think marked by several significant events: one of course was the passing of Eliot’s widow, Mrs. Valerie Eliot. Mrs. Eliot has clearly taken very … Continue reading
Anne Sexton in “Mercy Street” by Peter Gabriel
Mercy Street Looking down on empty streets, all she can see Are the dreams all made solid Are the dreams all made real All of the buildings, all of those … Continue reading
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