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If I were a poet, then I might know how best to thank those who make life beautiful: Gillian Allnut thanks someone for showing her how to see the beauty of a ‘Golden Saxifrage’ and other kindness. This blog is about one poem in Gillian Allnut’s beautiful 2025 volume ‘Lode’. I wish I knew how to thank her.

June 29, 2025

I bought Lode from the Left bookshop in Durham where Gillian Allnut herself works as a volunteer, and I read it through for the first time last night before attempting to ignore the heat and sleep. What buzzed through my mind together with the gorgeous complex rhythmic adventures and associations with recall from past great … More If I were a poet, then I might know how best to thank those who make life beautiful: Gillian Allnut thanks someone for showing her how to see the beauty of a ‘Golden Saxifrage’ and other kindness. This blog is about one poem in Gillian Allnut’s beautiful 2025 volume ‘Lode’. I wish I knew how to thank her.

Learning to be grateful: ‘teach me to see it, to see it / with you, and to offer somebody / uncomprehending, impudent thanks’.

July 2, 2024

I found I had nothing to say to this question and I looked for something where someone had something to say. We look for soothsayers and truth-tellers. We need help most to say that we have experienced that which we lack. We feel most the lack of something to feel grateful for, for we cannot … More Learning to be grateful: ‘teach me to see it, to see it / with you, and to offer somebody / uncomprehending, impudent thanks’.