Skip to content

Louise Gluck

Sailing Through This to That

September 16, 2024April 19, 2020 by JosieHolford

May the tide carry you out beyond the face of fear. Three poems for Sunday. Yesterday it snowed and I made tartar sauce – just mayonnaise, lemon juice, mustard and a chopped pickle – to go with the cubes of frozen fish. And today they say the temperature will rise into the 60s F. We … Read more

Categories Poetry, RattleBag and Rhubarb Tags Derek Walcott, Louise Gluck, Lucille Clifton, poetry 9 Comments

Top Posts and Pages
The Seasloth Review ExclusiveThe Seasloth Review Exclusive
The Ice CartThe Ice Cart
School Sabotage and SurvivalSchool Sabotage and Survival
How to Teach WritingHow to Teach Writing
A Better Class of TrainA Better Class of Train
Everything Was Going So Well at Wayward St. Etheldreda'sEverything Was Going So Well at Wayward St. Etheldreda's
Sea FeverSea Fever
Gobbledegook, Gibberish, and Deep JoyGobbledegook, Gibberish, and Deep Joy
PartitionPartition
An Answer to Frances CornfordAn Answer to Frances Cornford

Recents Posts

  • How to Teach Writing
  • The Seasloth Review Exclusive
  • Beryl and Marigold
  • Everything Was Going So Well at Wayward St. Etheldreda’s
  • Metrophobia

Latest Comments

  1. shaun tenzenmen on How to Teach Writing
  2. shaun tenzenmen on How to Teach Writing
  3. shaun tenzenmen on How to Teach Writing
  4. JosieHolford on How to Teach Writing
  5. JosieHolford on How to Teach Writing
  6. Grace on How to Teach Writing
  7. Heather Kempton on How to Teach Writing

Wayward St.Etheldreda Academy

  • The School Mission: Wayward Academy or St. Etheldreda’s
  • Personal Update. And Breaking News
  • Best Practices, Reading Wars, and Eruption at Wayward
  • Wayward and The Turning Tide
  • Seasonal Cheer at Wayward Academy
  • The Affair of the Chocolate Teapot
  • Everything Was Going So Well at Wayward St. Etheldreda’s

McPomes

  • What Is Revealed
  • Ocean Park (for Richard) after Frank O’Hara with Cigarette
  • Dead Man’s Penny
  • The Scattering
  • Incident on Broadway
  • The Inventory of After
  • The Gardener’s Diary, 1940
  • Spring in the Trenches
  • Snowdrops

The Life and Times of C.Langley Dunwood

  • Tasting Notes
  • Dunwood Comes Ashore at The Seasloth Review
  • Pass the Biscuits: On the Cosy Corruption of the Blurb
  • The Seasloth Review
  • Penguins and the Poet

Other Fiction, Verse & Worse

  • Thermocline
  • The McSwindle
  • Authority Interrupted: My Giddy Aunt!
  • As Atlas the Sky
  • The Knitter
  • Hot Stuff
  • Beryl Goes to School
  • Aligned
  • When the Machine Makes It Up: Check your Sources
  • The Raft
  • A Shadorma Chain on the Problem of Cats
  • An Invitation
  • A Winter Expedition
  • An Abundance of Caution
  • Classic Crime: Death Comes to Kellings
  • Eat my leek!
  • Eye-Rhyme Blues
  • For When It Snows Part Two
  • Poem [Lana Turner has collapsed!]
  • The Ingredient
  • The Shadorma – Definition and Origin with Examples.
  • The Sordid Boon

Headlands

  • Can and May and Merv
  • The Queen of Mean
  • The Welsh Connection
  • And of Course We Called Her “Nutty”
  • The Changed Face of School Leadership

WW1

  • Song of the Dark Ages
  • Sospan Fach and that Cursèd Wood
  • Suvla Bay, Gallipoli 1915
  • That Cursèd Wood
  • Thaw
  • The Christmas Truce: “A Day of Perfect Peace”
  • The BWIR, Mutiny and the Men of Taranto: No Parades
  • Women Artists of WW1: Nellie Isaac
  • Women Artists of WW1: Norah Neilson Gray
  • Wood on the Downs
  • “And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds”.
  • 1915 and The Midnight of the Nations
  • Before The Charge: The Great Push, Loos, September 1915
  • The BWIR, Mutiny and the Men of Taranto: No Parades
  • For The Sake Of Example: The story of Pvt. Herbert Morris of the BWIR

Beryl Goes to School

  • Beryl Goes to School
  • A Most Dreadful Day
  • Beryl Meets Top Girl
  • Beryl and Marigold
© 2026 • Built with GeneratePress

Loading Comments...