Poem of the Month Click to read a different poem every month. Go to Contact with your suggestions.
Click on the relevant title to view critical comment on its poems. These commentaries vary in length and in the aspects of the poems on which they concentrate.
Please note that currently only those poems whose titles are printed in bold in the indecies have viewable commentaries. I will post more in time. Note also, however, that I only intend to post comments on two poems from The North Ship, since this collection is best regarded as juvenilia.
Update: Commentaries completed as at December 2005:
- XX. 'I see a girl dragged by the wrists' (TNS)
- XXXII. 'Waiting for breakfast, while she brushed her hair' (TNS)
- Next, Please (TLD)
- No Road (TLD)
- If, My Darling (TLD)
- At Grass (TLD)
- Mr Bleaney (TWW)
- Talking in Bed (TWW)
- As Bad as a Mile (TWW)
- Ambulances (TWW)
- Dockery and Son (TWW)
- An Arundel Tomb (TWW)
- High Windows (HW)
- Money (HW)
- Cut Grass (HW)
- The Explosion (HW)
The Less Deceived
The Whitsun Weddings
High Windows