Vicki Ziegler Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Vicki Ziegler

So, this poem captivated me some time ago. Thanks to @lethal_heroine for reminding me that it was a haunting part of the movie version of @reid_iain's I’m Thinking of Ending Things https://t.co/9ojWJadwjV ... and now the poem is found in Eva H.D.'s latest: https://t.co/LL7Ak5N0t6 https://t.co/zQQCUQuyLE

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@RichardNSkinner Patrick McCabe's Poguemahone (@biblioasis) is singular and epic: https://t.co/DK7TOemaew

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This moving tale of kindnesses offered and dignity bestowed, in the face of the cruelties of Ireland's Magdalene laundries, reminded me for some reason of the contemplative tone of James Joyce's The Dead. I think I have to seek out and reread that now ...

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"Make nothing without words, and let me be the one you never hold." #todayspoem Language Lesson 1976 by Heather McHugh from Hinge & Sign: Poems, 1968-1993 (1994 @WeslPress) https://t.co/aNYt2yFyff

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"here is my experiment with light which leaves me now the dear shapes gone to sound the end wrapped around the beginning a piano in a dark room" #TodaysPoem experiments (our life together) by Michele Leggott from Heartland (2014 @AUPBooks) https://t.co/aQ9a7Duugz

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"They are doing away with daylight saving and where shall we meet? now God I don't think so is shutting those windows" #TodaysPoem Daylight Saving by Glyn Maxwell (@glynofwelwyn) from How the Hell Are You (2020 @PicadorBooks) https://t.co/UifXxcGy1A & https://t.co/FjrcCjBfSY

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"Once in a sycamore I was glad all at the top, and I sang. Hard on the land wears the strong sea and empty grows every bed." #TodaysPoem Dream Song 1 by John Berryman from The Dream Songs (1969 @fsgbooks) https://t.co/Em2NdKjtgi & https://t.co/xYbPIPAELK

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"Is it maybe better not just to respect but to committedly embrace knowing’s limits? Past which, like the sea where the land gives out, yes: a silence opens." My Trade Is Mystery: Seven Meditations from a Life in Writing by Carl Phillips (@CPhillipsPoet) https://t.co/hZz2z2morf

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"she tries leaning pouring pure outwardness out of a grey urn little lapping sounds yes as of dry grass secretly drinking try again" #todayspoem Dunt: a poem for a dried up river by Alice Oswald from Falling Awake (2016 @WWNorton) https://t.co/CXr6MFExLq

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@mainelife @MissLiberty I second Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan (@CKeeganFiction)