Archive - The Ignorant Suburb

On animal poems, with help from George MacBeth and Sylvia Plath

Apr 21 •

What are days for?

Answering Larkin's question - and some thoughts on what's next

Apr 14 •

January 2024

A darkling thrush

Thomas Hardy's Happy New Year

Jan 1 •

November 2023

Some untidy spot

Looking at W. H. Auden's ‘Musée des Beaux Arts’

Nov 19, 2023 •

August 2023

Where a thought might grow

Why poems are like mushrooms

Aug 18, 2023 •

June 2023

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes

Meddling with poems

Jun 4, 2023 •

May 2023

Robert Frost, John Clare and a Jewish Prayer Book

plus, a poem by H. Leivick

May 23, 2023 •

What Billy Collins and George Eliot have in common

Besides me reading them both recently

May 10, 2023 •

Incorrigibly plural

On Louis MacNeice's 'Snow'

May 6, 2023 •

April 2023

Larkin and Friends

On the Oxford Anthology of Twentieth Century English Verse

Apr 24, 2023 •

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