Joachim Ringelnatz (1883-1934) was a painter, cabaret performer and writer of satirical verse.  In 1933 his books were banned by the Nazis, and his writings and his paintings were declared ‘degenerate art’. He died of tuberculosis, almost destitute, in Berlin the following year.  Today our translator poet Timothy Adès reprises this nonsense poem of Spring.  Und es ist Tag… Continue reading

We are in April – yes, that Aprille with his shoures soote – on Day 503 of the daily new poems: but our poet today Fiona Clark steps back one Anglosaxon month to March, or Hrethmonath – dedicated to the goddess Hretha.  Fiona points out that in Wiccan traditions the goddess conceived the child of the god at the Spring equinox; in early Christian traditions,… Continue reading

The poems of Rainer Maria Rilke were written in a lyrically intense German.   Here our translator poet Timothy Adès  brings us one of Rilke’s poems of Spring, on Day 502 of the daily new poems. Springby Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926)translated from German by Timothy Adês Spring has a hundred wondersand now I’ll make it known.Spring’s place is in the woodlands,it… Continue reading

It is Day 501 of the daily new poems.  Not quite the start of a new dispensation – there are a few more Spring poems yet to come.  Your editor however, in recognition of how this all started with the daily poems getting going with the first UK coronavirus lockdown four years ago, offers you a recent poem that… Continue reading

It is Day 500 of the daily new poems – an achievement.  Even more so when you think of the four years that the daily poems have been going since the first UK coronavirus lockdown – giving us a cache of some one and a half thousand poems, for which I thank you.  The first 200 have… Continue reading