Today’s poem – topically given events in Europe in 2022 – is Thomas Hardy on the madness of war. See and hear it here, and see the illustrated blog post here.
Set between references to classical myth, today’s new poem uses a captive swan to summon up the anguish of those who have lost something irreplaceable in Baudelaire’s poem mourning the destruction of the old city of Paris. Hear the French and follow in English here, and see the illustrated blog post here.