Poem of the Week
A Lenten Journey with T. S. Eliot
Lent begins with the start of a season of T. [...]
Sea Fever and Entrenched Passion
John Masefield yearns for the sea. Siegfried Sassoon yells in [...]
Listening Ghosts and a Rolling English Road
A mysterious traveller meets some even more mysterious ghosts and [...]
Dark Angels and Cautionary Tales
W. B. Yeats and Lionel Johnson fear the devil while [...]
British Imperialism and Irish Nationalism
Kipling sings of far-flung corners of the British Empire. Yeats [...]
Kipling’s Cockney ‘Ero
Musing on Housman's melancholy muse and finding amusement in Kipling's [...]
Prison as a Prism
Oscar Wilde discovers that prison can be a prism through [...]
In the Shadow of the Hangman
Oscar Wilde, serving a two-year prison sentence, sympathizes with a [...]
Jesuits and Jailbirds
One became a priest and the other went to prison [...]
Poems for New Year, Twelfth Night & Epiphany
A festive feast of verse for the end of the [...]
A Visit by a Ghost of Christmas Past
As a special gift for the festive season, we continue [...]
Celebrating Christmas with Saint Robert Southwell
A celebration of the festive season with a selection of [...]