Blog of Susannah Quinsee about life, work, parenthood and play
Saturday poem. I am tired today (late night last night) and didn’t much of any significance but I love Autumn and in honour of my Lockdown II poems which I blogged every day last November, I decided just to choose Continue reading November 13th
This weekend felt more Spring-like. Beautiful crystal clear nights, frosty mornings and most importantly, warmth in the sunshine. The tulips are blooming and I am trying to persuade everyone to do our annual cycle to the local bluebell wood – Continue reading The Psyche of Spring by George Marion McClellan
In honour of Mothering Sunday, I wanted to include a poem about motherhood and in honour of mothers. Despite scouring the internet, nothing really fit, and then I remembered this book 44 Things by Kirsty Gunn which I bought when Continue reading Extract from “44 Things” by Kirsty Gunn
It is International Women’s Day on Monday (8th March) and so in celebration of that I wanted a poem about strong women. This one pretty much fits that criteria and it was one that I wanted to include in my Continue reading A Woman Speaks by Audre Lorde
It’s Valentines’ Day tomorrow so a love poem for the poem of the week seems appropriate. And given that I seem to have a few love poetry books, I have quite a choice! I’m normally pretty low-key about Valentine’s Day Continue reading Love Tells Us Who We Are, Donald T. Saunders
Lockdown II: The Return (as I am calling it although I notice that all the cool kids call it Lockdown 2.0, oh well), coincided almost with the beginning of November and I had two biggest projects or shall we say Continue reading Reflections on November: writing target and poems
The end of Lockdown: The Return is nearly over! I was caught unawares as I had thought it rumbled on for a few more days. Not sure how much of a difference it makes personally as we’ve gone back to Continue reading Silver, Walter de la Mare
I was thinking about poems I had read as a child and came upon this one, which must be a bit of a “classic” children’s poem. Although I’m not a huge fan of Romantic poets, I did study them for Continue reading The Tyger, William Blake
Was wondering how to end my week of women’s poetry and Queen Elizabeth I seemed a pretty good finish. I have always had a fascination with Elizabeth I and that was partly why I was drawn to study Renaissance literature. Continue reading When I was Fair and Young, Queen Elizabeth I
I felt rather uninspired today, I have to be honest. Feel like I have rediscovered a lot of poems and writers I had forgotten about but now where to go? So I have left this for a while and then Continue reading The Orange, Wendy Cope