During these difficult times I’ve been reading a lot of poetry, particularly ones about the beauty of the natural world. It struck me that bits of poetry fit beautifully on postcards!
I’ll send a poetcard on your behalf; just select “choose a poem for me” in the form for one of these postcard campaigns:
Published poetcards
Poets and poems featured on poetcards
| Card # | Poet | Poem |
|---|---|---|
| 057: Lambs | Traci Brimhall | Why I Stayed |
| 058: Brilliant and alive | Ethna McKiernan | Storm, Lake Superior |
| 059: October twilight | W.B. Yeats | The Wild Swans at Coole |
| 060: Whorls of crows | Adam Thorpe | By Silbury |
| 062: Beautiful waves | Simon Ó Faoláin | Horizons |
| 063: Curving roads | Eoin Rogers | Sally Gap |
| 064: Lost kingdom | W.B. Yeats | The Musicians |
| 065: Bulbs | Patrick Moran | Bulbs |
| 067: Warm silence | Seán Hewitt | Connemara |
| 068: Lilac | Sighle Meehan | A Promise Made |
| 069: Buttercups | Traci Brimhall | Why I Stayed |
| 070: Grandfather | Stephen Sexton | The Curfew |
| 072: Jewel light | Alice Lyons | Deep-Sworn |
| 073: Terrible beauty | W.B. Yeats | Easter 1916 |
| 074: Soft foil sea | Eva Isherwood-Wallace | Epithalamium |
| 075: Dreoilín | Colette Nic Aodha | Being a Poet |
| 077: Sunlight into shadow | Campbell McGrath | Yeats’s Swans |
| 078: Important | Martina Evans | The Irish Airman Parachutes to Earth |
| 079: Minding the flames | Simon Armitage | October |
| 080: Bartender | John Gosslee | The Congress |
| 082: Hyacinth | Seán Lysaght | Narcissus |
| 083: Quiet work | Michael Lauchlan | Now That He’s Gone |
| 084: Po’boys | August Kleinzahler | April, 1920 |
| 085: Albatrosses rise | David McLoghlin | Blue Dark |
| 087: Michaelmas | Majella Kelly | Michaelmas Daisies |
| 088: Tame parrots | Lani O’Hanlon | The Cherry Blossoms Were Purple There |
| 089: Sirens | Seán Hewitt | Sirens |
| 090: Caregiver | Bruce McIntyre | A Prayer for the Caregiver |