May 2024

  • Day 515 – Le Muguet

    Robert Desnos (1900-1945) was a member of the French Resistance – arrested by the Nazis he was deported to the camps, and died in Theresienstadt.  Yesterday on this page we read his ‘last poem’; today (01 May) on Day 515 of the daily new poems, Timothy Adès translates his First of May poem ‘Le Muguet’. Lily… Continue reading