Thursday 11th January 2024

 My elevenses involved a spin through some of Siegfried Sassoon's poetry. Across the corridor from my office is the Poetry Please office which is piled floor to ceiling with, poetry books. I have a collection of Sassoon's work at home but I've simply taken ten minutes for a coffee and a skim-through read.  I particularly liked At Max Gate, p244, involving a meeting with Thomas Hardy who wished to be alone and The Question, p270, six lines musing on what it means to be. That latter poem does hint at his age and mortality with a last line of '....Eternity's quick creature, born of what has been."