On the day of Donald Trump’s inauguration, the editor Annie Ridout was in hospital having just given birth to a baby boy. Here, she reflects on what it means to be raising a boy in 2017…
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Mornings
How have your mornings been during the festive period? Have you been rising early or snuggling up and hoping for a lie-in? Here are some thoughts on early mornings from Robert Burns in his poem Up in the Morning Early…
Mornings
Howl: a poem by Allen Ginsberg that defined a generation of beat poets. With frequent references to morning, we think it makes the perfect Saturday morning poem. Or perhaps we’re simply putting it up because we love it…
Mornings
Morning is the start of a new day but can also allude to the beginning of life. In Sylvia Plath’s emotive poem Morning Song, she describes the arrival of her baby and those tender early days as a new mother…