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Mary Jane Oliver (September 10, 1935 – January 17, 2019) was an American poet who won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. She found inspiration for her work in nature and had a lifelong habit of solitary walks in the wild.
Nine Coaches Waiting is the tale of a young English governess, Linda Martin, who travels from North London via Paris then Geneva to the remote Château Valmy, beyond Thonon, France, in the French Alps, to take care of nine-year-old Philippe de Valmy. There she finds herself entangled in a murder plot which eventually results in the revelation ...
Mary Jane Carr (April 23, 1895 – January 4, 1988) [1] was an American author. Carr wrote her first poem at the age of eight. While at high school, she relied on her writing to pay her way through school. She had a contract with Walt Disney. [2] Other than poems and stories, she also published plays for children.
In Blackwater Woods is a free verse poem written by Mary Oliver (1935–2019). The poem was first published in 1983 in her collection American Primitive , which won the 1984 Pulitzer Prize . [ 1 ] The poem, like much of Oliver's work, uses imagery of nature to make a statement about human experience.
She concluded that the poem "has the force of truth." [4] Writing about the poem in 60 Classic Australian Poems editor Geoff Page called it "political poetry at its best." He went on to conclude that even "if the concept of 'nationalism' were to disappear from the human vocabulary, we'd still need Gilmore's poem to remind us of what it had been ...
Longfellow wrote the poem shortly after completing lectures on German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and was heavily inspired by him. He was also inspired to write it by a heartfelt conversation he had with friend and fellow professor at Harvard University Cornelius Conway Felton; the two had spent an evening "talking of matters, which lie near one's soul:–and how to bear one's self ...
Maya Popa on 'The Namesake' poem - TLS Poem of the Week, 2020; Jane Draycott Poet of the Week -Two Rivers Press, June 2020 'Once I asked if we could take a rain check' poem, with artist Mustashrik Mahbub - Napkin Poetry Review 2021 'The Claim' poem - Carol Rumens' Poem of the Week, The Guardian, 14 November 2022
Lathbury said that she became involved with Christian service full-time because God said to her, "Remember, my child, that you have a gift of weaving fancies into verse and a gift with the pencil of producing visions that come to your heart; consecrate these to Me as thoroughly as you do your inmost spirit". [1] [2]