Saturday is Sunday again this week and a poem which was not the weeks' first choice but which came to be so through several events. It happens that lj friends jcporter1 and tripleransom have been reflecting on loss of pets/companion animals both from personal experience and as friends of others. Of course I had been also struggling with choosing a poem to face the ( Read more... )

I know David Constantine has appeared in this column before but I was reading the small volume of poems that he had published on his 70th birthday 2 years ago and there were several I liked so much that I felt at least one should go into the column. He was born in Salford, which for non British readers is a town in north west England, now the home ( Read more... )

Our companion animals series reaches its largest participant this week with horses as our subject. Though these are especially for horse owning and loving friends such as tripleransom and jcporter1 I hope that,as with the other animals featured others will enjoy them too ( Read more... )

I carefully made two posts yesterday one of a life update with lots of news and one for TSP- and LJ ate them both at point of posting Grrrrrrrr ( Read more... )

The Saturday poem is actually on Saturday today and as promised it features the poetry of Norman MacCaig, whose collected poems I was lucky enough to be given for Christmas by the lovely anteros_lmcMacCaig was born in 1910 and was a school teacher before moving later in life to poetry full time. Although not from the Highlands and Islands, and being ( Read more... )

Since we are a day late TSP is offering two poems for one which is good because we are aiming to celebrate two events - that today is St Cecilia's Day, the patron saint of music, and for American LJ friends, Thursday's Thanksgiving holiday.I know that the latter like Christmas in Britain and other 'family' events is not always easy and am thinking ( Read more... )

Many thanks to kittycallum for last week's column which I know a number of readers enjoyed. As October is here themes are turning reflective with the season and indeed readers are invited to send in poems or links to poems on an Autumnal theme, either descriptive of the season or more metaphorically understood> Poems will all be shared in the post on 24th ( Read more... )

Another first for TSP with a guest column from kittycallum our first column from Canada.Many thanks for this contribution which crosses seas and cultures.Kittycallum writes ( Read more... )

Today TSP is pleased to present another Mylodon guest column.Thanks very much to her for that ( Read more... )

Here at TSP we have a poem for the week as usual but we are also recommending a site for which the link is : www.classicpoetryaloud.com which offers pretty much what the title implies, podcast readings of poetry from the classic English language canon on both sides of the Atlantic .Not as eclectic as is this modest little column but very well ( Read more... )