poetry | grief On going about your own life when a loved one is suffering: W. H. Auden’s “Musée des Beaux Arts” February 10, 2016October 29, 2022
poetry | grief | loss Nick Cave’s chosen “sad poem of loss”: “The Widower in the Country” by Les Murray July 16, 2015September 5, 2022
poetry | relaxation Allen Ginsberg on never working again (and living a “literary and quiet city-hermit existence” instead) June 19, 2015October 29, 2022
poetry | accepting ourselves | confidence | mindfulness | self-esteem ‘Feast on your life’: Tom Hiddleston on Derek Walcott’s “Love After Love” for accepting ourselves April 19, 2015October 29, 2022
anxiety | meditation | mindfulness | poetry | war | War and Peace Reading W.B. Yeats’s “An Irish Airman Foresees His Death” as a Meditation on Life October 1, 2014January 3, 2020
poetry | grief | loss Poetry for Letting Go: In Blackwater Woods by Mary Oliver August 21, 2014December 16, 2022
poetry | inspiring “Let My Country Awake” by Rabindranath Tagore to Inspire Individual and Social Change June 19, 2014September 8, 2022
bibliotherapy | depression | poetry | reading for wellbeing Bibliotherapy and TV’s Mad Men: Frank O’Hara’s ‘Mayakovsky’ and Meditations in an Emergency May 12, 2013
poetry | book to screen The Poem M Reads in Skyfall: A Quote From Tennyson’s Ulysses October 28, 2012November 23, 2022
poetry “Brief Thoughts on Maps” by Miroslav Holub: a poem about finding our bearings August 22, 2012October 29, 2022
poetry Che Guevara’s “Cuaderno Verde” (Green Notebook) including poets such as León Felipe July 8, 2012November 11, 2022
