Mrs Midas – Carol Ann Duffy

 

Louise Gluck wins Nobel Prize

Recently we posted Louise Gluck’s poem Lamium and we’ve also posted excerpts from other poems in her collection The Wild Iris. She’s just won the Nobel Prize for Literature “for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.”

Kay Ryan

Lamium

W. S. Merwin: The Solstice

Happiness

If, like Gert, you’ve been out of your usual whirl of cocktail parties, media appearances and clamourings for your advice on all sorts of subjects, you may appreciate this poem Happiness, which popped into our mailbox courtesy of the Paris Review’s Daily Poem service:

Cats purring in the library

The whole world stretches out around us

In the mood..

for a bit of Blake

John Burnside

Les Murray: 1938 – 2019