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June's poems group themselves around the theme of living with suffering.
The theorist Theodor Adorno famously said that to write a poem after Auschwitz was barbaric. We discuss this thought on the 18th and 19th with poems from Geoffrey Hill in memory of the holocaust and a poem by Paul Celan about being in a work camp. Earlier Thomas Hardy and Dom Moraes envision the end of things, Franz Kafka examines the strange fact that desire can be the only affirmation of life, and James Fenton, John Gillespie Magee,Stephen Crane, W B Yeats and Anna Akhmatova speak of living through conflict.
We also have poems celebrating new life - from Kate Clanchy on the 11th, and Amy Clampitt on the 16th, as well as famous memorials of death from Thomas Gray, Paul Muldoon and Anna Akhmatova.
The month ends with summer and boyhood - descriptions from Britiish poets including Dylan Thomas, Philip Larkin and BarryTebb and Americans - Charles Simic and James Whitcomb Riley,
Enjoy!
June
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2
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Dom Moraes
Thomas Hardy
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Indian
English
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Absences
We are Getting to the End
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3
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Franz Kafka
Kate
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Czech
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from The Castle
Desire
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4
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James Fenton
Nazim Hikmet
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English
Turkish
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Tianenmen
Prague
Dawn
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5
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Sinead Morrissey
Stephen Crane
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Irish
American
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The Wound Man
The Ocean Said to Me Once
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6
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Maxine Kumin
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American
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The Hermit Goes Up Attic
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9
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John Gillespie Magee
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American
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High Flight
We Laid Him
Per Ardua
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10
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Christopher Middleton
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English
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At Portcothan
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11
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Kate Clanchy
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Scottish
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In a Prospect of Flowers
New Born, Not Art
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12
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Thomas Gray
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English
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Elegy Wrote in a Country Churchyard
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13
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W B Yeats
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Irish
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Under Ben Bulben
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16
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Amy Clampitt
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American
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The Sun Underfoot among the Sundews
The Waterfall
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17
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Gwendolyn Brooks
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American
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The Lovers of the Poor
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18
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Geoffrey Hill
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English
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Two Formal Elegies
September Song
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19
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Paul Celan
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Romanian
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Death Fugue
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20
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Paul Muldoon
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N Irish
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In Memory of My Father
Quoof
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23
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Anna Akhmatova
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Russian
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Solitude
The Publication of a Book
You Are to Live
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24
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Dylan Thomas
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Welsh
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Fern Hill
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25
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Dylan Thomas
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Welsh
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I See the Boys of Summer
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26
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W E Henley
Philip Larkin
James Whitcomb Riley
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English
English
American
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Between the Dusk
Mother, Summer, I
A Summer Afternoon
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27
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Charles Simic
Barry Tebb
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American
English
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Summer in the Country
Summer with Margaret
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30
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Sophie Hannah
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English
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Triskaidekaphobia
Ante-Natal
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