I have been slowly re-reading Ted Hughes’ series of BBC “programmes” on poetry.  They were designed for teen and tween listeners. Yeah, right. Hughes’ book is the only text you need for a life built around poetry.  For example, I am reading a chapter now called “Capturing Animals”. He argues that I think of poems…

Imbued with the magic of every morning, the porch swing takes flight. [video width="1280" height="720" mp4="https://impedagogy.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/The_Swing.mp4"][/video]   It always (and by ‘it’ I mean life) always for me comes down to the ordinary acts of anonymous living piled high and heated and smithed… and again until it becomes memory– perdurable and fizzing.