W S Graham

W S Graham (1918-1986). All poems and excerpts from his 'New Collected Poems' (Faber, 2004)

[W S Graham @WSGraham]

Lying asleep turning
Round in the quay-lit dark
It was my father standing
As real as life. I smelt
The quay’s tar and the ropes.

'To Alexander Graham' (1975)
https://t.co/8sFhxn6kED

[Black Herald Press @Blackheraldpres]

a sample of our W.S. Graham collection, including "Les Dialogues obscurs / The Dark Dialogues"
https://t.co/CH7SB1i4N8
#WSGraham #BlackHeraldPress

[Andrew Norman @nja]

Some W S Graham for national poetry day.

[Beci Carver @becimay]

WS Graham on why we talk/write

[Noreen Masud @NoreenMasud]

On a happier note I'm really delighted that everyone on Twitter is publicly reading and marvelling over W. S. Graham

[W S Graham @WSGraham]

The bad word and the bad word and
The word which glamours me with some
Quick face it pulls to make me let
It leave me to go across
In roughly your direction, hates
To go out maybe so completely
On another silence not its own.

'Approaches to How They Behave'

[Joseph Massey @jmasseypoet]

My companion today: the underrated and neglected Scottish poet W.S. Graham.

[Leigh Goodwin leighgoodwin.bsky.social @Ms_Wombat]

and above the bracken
Tops with their young heads

Recognising the wind,
The armies of the empty
Blue press me further
Into Zennor Hill.

If I half-close my eyes
The spiked light leaps in
And I am here as near
Happy as I will get
In the sailing afternoon.

#poem W. S. Graham

[The Grammarsow @thegrammarsow]

BACK TO ZENNOR !!

Weds 15th Sept
7pm
St Senara's Church
Freee event w/ @stivesfestival

Poetry from @aimeemle @LukeThompson210 and Mac Dunlop

TTBB

[Simon Spanton @SimonGuy64]

"The armies of the empty
Blue press me further
Into Zennor Hill.

If I half-close my eyes
The spiked light leaps in
And I am here as near
Happy as I will get
In the sailing afternoon."

Time to find out, very late again, about another poet.

[W S Graham @WSGraham]

I have made myself alone now.
Outside the tent endless
Drifting hummock crests.
Words drifting on words.
The real unabstract snow.

'Malcolm Mooney's Land'

[W S Graham @WSGraham]

You are come home but you are about
To not fight hard enough and die
In a no less desolate dark wood
Where a stranger shall never enter.

Imagine a forest
A real forest.

('Imagine a Forest')

[W S Graham @WSGraham]

@jr_carpenter @RichardACarter2 'Peter, I called and you were away, speaking
Only through what you made and at your best.'

'The Thermal Stair' (for Peter Lanyon)
https://t.co/h5ifN57oXu

[Emma Bolland @emmaZbolland]

Ah, smashing!

[W S Graham @WSGraham]

'Here I am, sitting in the studio in front of silence, to read eight poems. What can I say about them?' W.S. Graham introduces and reads poems from 'Implements in Their Places': the full broadcast (20 January 1978) now online
https://t.co/MmLF6BEIC8

[prototype @prototypepubs]

Try To Be Better, ed. Sam Buchan-Watts & @lcosinger is out now! The first Prototype publication; an exciting moment & we couldn't have wished for a better list of contributors or a more beautiful book (@b_f_t_k). Copies at https://t.co/Q51yYdGEDt Launch @BurleyFisher on 28 June

[Southbank Centre @southbankcentre]

.@natpoetrylib @southbankcentre are giving visitors the chance to enter the creative world of #poet W.S Graham via an amazing reconstruction of the room in the Cornish cottage where he wrote his poetry. Book your free #Constructing Spaces visit here: https://t.co/P5xrMXsO9D

[Faber Books @FaberBooks]

To mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of the poet W. S. Graham here is a special selection of images and quotations that celebrate his life and work
https://t.co/Y3OHshEyjd #wsg100 #WSGraham

[Faber Books @FaberBooks]

Today we celebrate the centenary of W. S. Graham's birth. Read his poem 'To Alexander Graham' here: https://t.co/9Je8QEdJx7
#wsg100 #WSGraham

[Longbarrow Press @LongbarrowPress]

'Speaking to you and not
Knowing if you are there
Is not too difficult.
My words are used to that.'

From the Longbarrow archive, on the centenary of #WSGraham's birth: 'Dead Letters', on Graham and elegy
https://t.co/e9x2gZZTql