Archive - The Ignorant Suburb

October 2024

The Man Who Sold Knives

Oct 15 •

Sweet soul travelling

Translating Hadrian's final poem

Oct 8 •

September 2024

Why children eat books up

Some further thoughts on childhood reading

Sep 17 •

July 2024

Notebook #1: Strong words

Some notes on notemaking; disappearing elections

Jul 3 •

May 2024

Why Ozymandias had the last laugh

Rereading Shelley's monumental poem

May 22 •

April 2024

Animal poems, subject matter and Sylvia Plath's moles

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

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

Nov 19, 2023 •

August 2023

On keeping a notebook

Why poems are like mushrooms

Aug 18, 2023 •

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