The Splash of Words: Believing in Poetry by Mark Oakley Paul Henry His town’s defining modern disaster

His town’s defining modern disaster – the loss in 1959 of the lifeboat Mona with all hands – becomes a symbol for a world turned upside down

After his first gratuitous exercises when he was 22 and striving to commit himself to love poetry

From the wide-open plains of ecology and social history to the intimate enclosures of dreams

Poetry London

Liam Ó Muirthile

The Splash of Words: Believing in Poetry by Mark Oakley Paul Henry His town’s defining modern disasterWhether you love poetry or haven't read it since school, The Splash of Words will help you rediscover poetry's power to startle, challenge and reframe your vision. Like throwing a pebble into water, a poem causes a 'splash of words' whose ripples can transform the way we see the world, ourselves and God. Through thirty selected poems, from the fourteenth century to the present day, Mark Oakley explores poetry's power to stir our settled ways of