from the bucolic to something a little more robust. Inspired by liberaldogooder's quotation from the opening of Eliot's The Waste Land yesterday, here's my favourite chunk in full: the joyless coupling between the typist and the house agent's clerk--the "young man carbuncular".from Sarah Crown: The Guardian: Poem of the Day: Our second National Poetry Month poem--a little bit of Eliot for you.
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In honour of the quietude, then, here's poem about a moment of stillness by Don Paterson from his Whitbread- and TS Eliot-winning collection, Landing Light. It knocked me sideways the first time I read it and still has the power to bring tears to my eyes.
Waking with Russell
from Sarah Crown: The Guardian: Poem of the Day: Today, something by Don Paterson.
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I'm delighted that so many seemed to enjoy Friday's Don Paterson poem, and decided to follow up today with another--very different--contemporary favourite of mine: Look We Have Coming to Dover! by Daljit Nagra.
from Sarah Crown: The Guardian: Poem of the Day: After Don Paterson on Friday, here's another contemporary poem.
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