Books The Craft of Poetry “How does poetry work? What should readers notice and look out for? Poet Lucy Newlyn demystifies the principles of the form, effortlessly illustrating key approaches and terms—all through her own original verse.”
Bipolar The Questionnaires An excerpt from Diary of a Bipolar Explorer, dealing with the charting of mood disorder in 2008.
Bipolar The GP A poem of homage to Ann McPherson, my GP for thirty years. (I published this first in the Oxford Magazine and later as the dedication to Diary of a Bipolar Explorer.)
Word and Image Falling With apologies to W.H. Auden, here’s a poem about Kate Newlyn’s sculpture, ‘Icarus’. I have a bronze resin cast of this on our wall at home. It is slightly different in some minor details from the image.
Poetry The Anxiety of Influence A pair of villanelles I wrote a while ago about the anxiety of influence...a concept which goes on fascinating me, even though I am long done with Harold Bloom.
Cornwall Second Homes An elegy for Robert Woof, Director of the Wordsworth Trust, who lived partly in Newcastle, partly in Grasmere. The poem’s setting is Portloe in Cornwall.
Poetry A Rebellion An elegy for my first husband, Jonathan Wordsworth. The setting is St Catherine's College, Oxford.
Cornwall Name-placing A sonnet about place-names in Cornwall; first published in the Oxford Magazine.
Poetry Makers A sequence of poems paying tribute to poets and singer-songwriters who have shaped my life.
Poetry The Anthropocene A poem about global warming, from my collection ‘The Pebble and the Feather’ (Ludo Press, 2019).
Poetry Tess A pantoum inspired by the superb BBC adaptation of Hardy’s novel,Tess of the D‘Urbervilles.
