Poem for Today - October 08

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October 08

Autumn is perhaps a good time to think about losing things ...

We have Elizabeth Bishop on the art of losing, Edna St Vincent Millay, E J Scovell and the British Poet Laureate Andrew Motion on losing people ... joined later in the month by Pamela Gillilan and Denise Levertov.

The Irish poet Paul Durcan expresses his anger at losing friends through terrorism and Elizabeth Jennings looks at an old man and an old woman on the very brink of existence.

But there is hope too: the great Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, who died in August, celebrates his country in In This Land and gives us a hope for the future in Another Day Will Come. Philip Booth and Selima Hill celebrate the joys of sharing existence with others and Robert Herrick, Anne Sexton and - a new voice - the New Zealand poet James Baxter all delight in the pleasures of everyday events.

Enjoy ...

October

1	Edward Thomas W S Merwin	English American	October Oak Time
2	Frances Horowitz Wallace Stevens	English American	Rain – Birdoswald The Domination of Black
3	Anne Sexton	American	Barefoot Courage
6	Elizabeth Bishop	American	One Art The Shampoo
7	James Whitcomb Riley Edgar Allan Poe	American American	The Rival The Spirits of the Dead A Dream Within a Dream
8	Philip Booth	American	Saying It Another Man’s Wife Nightwatch
9	Tadeusz Rozewicz Jane Cooper Dürs Grünbein	Polish American German	Shallowly Quicker Rent Dresden
10	David Gascoyne	English	The Writer’s Hand
13	Selima Hill	English	For Days Now The Man who said he had Danced
14	e e cummings Randall Jarrell	American American	love is The Orient Express
15	Robert Herrick	English	To Daffodils To the Virgins Delight in Disorder
16	Paul Durcan	Irish	The Bloomsday Murders, 16 June 1997
17	Les Murray	Australian	An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow
20	Edna St Vincent Millay E J Scovell	American English	Elegy The New House
21	Patrick Kavanagh Brendan Kennelly	Irish Irish	The Raglan Road Raglan Lane
22	James K Baxter	New Zealand	Tomcat The Ikons
23	Douglas Dunn	Scottish	I am a Cameraman A Removal from Terry Street
24	Adrian Mitchell Denise Levertov	English English/American	Spitfire Daydream Living
27	Dylan Thomas Sylvia Plath	Welsh American	Poem in October Poppies in July Poppies in October
28	Andrew Motion Elizabeth Jennings	English English	The Attic Old Man Old Woman
29	Zbigniew Herbert Mahmoud Darwish	Polish Palestinian	Rosy Ear In This Land
30	Don Paterson Mahmoud Darwish	Scottish Palestinian	Poetry Another Day Will Come
31	Denise Levertov Pamela Gillilan Denise Levertov	English/American English English/American	Wedding Ring Four Years Wanting the Moon

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