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As summer begins to wane, we observe its passing with Emily Dickinson and Edward Arlington Robinson, and comment on the gradual fading of human relationships with a number of poets new to the program - Medbh McGuckian, Thomas Blackburn, Esta Spalding, Michael Laskey, Mairi MacInnes and, from America, Gjertrud Schnackenberg.

Old favorites are here too - Shelley and Tennyson, Ted Hughes and Thom Gunn, Dorothy Parker and John Betjeman ...

Enjoy! 

 

August

1

Theodore Roethke

Esta Spalding

American

Canadian

A Walk in Late Summer

from August

 

2

Percy Bysshe Shelley

English

To a Skylark

 

5

Conrad Aiken

American

The Rejection

Discordants I

To My Wife

 

6

Alfred Lord Tennyson

English

Tithonus

 

7

Marilyn Monroe

Sara Teasdale

American

American

Life

Primavera  Mia

 

8

Sara Teasdale

American

 

After Love

Buried Love

If Death is Kind

 

9

Louise Bogan

American

 

Men Loved Wholly Beyond Wisdom

Late

 

12

Medbh McGuckian

Irish

She is in the Past

 

13

Thomas Blackburn

English

A Small Keen Wind

Now Light Congeals

 

14

Czeslaw Milosz

Bertolt Brecht

Lithuanian

German 

Prayer

The Democratic Judge

 

15

Michael Laskey

Mairi MacInnes

Irish

English 

A Tray of Eggs

The Old Naval Airfield

 

16

Geoffrey Dearmer

Ted Hughes

English

English

The Turkish Trench Dog

Full Moon and Little Frieda

 

19

Emily Dickinson

Mary Oliver

Hart Crane

American

American

American

Summer Begins to have the Look

The Heron Rises

Repose of Rivers

 

20

Salvatore Quasimodo

X J Kennedy

Italian

American 

Only If Love Should Pierce You

Deer Ticks

 

21

X J Kennedy

Czeslaw Milosz

American

Lithuanian

First Confession

Christopher Robin

 

22

Dorothy Parker

American

A Certain Lady

A Dream Lies Dead

 

25

Edward Arlington Robinson

American

Late Summer

 

26

Guillaume Apollinaire

French

The Mirabeau Bridge

 

27

Gjertrud Schnackenberg

American

Snow Melting

Signs

 

28

Sir John Betjeman

English

Inexpensive Progress

 

29

Thom Gunn

Alice Oswald

English

English 

The Gas Poker

Mountains

 

 
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