The Poetry of Suicide: Lessons in Grief from the Lives and Deaths of Poets by J.T. Welsch Linda Black Irish Music Magazine

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he not only pulls the rug from under my feet when it comes to the moral complacencies and platitudes that I don’t notice I live by

From the nursery rhyme 'Rain

The poet focuses on this demanding and joyful relationship in terms that are funny and re-energising

The Poetry of Suicide: Lessons in Grief from the Lives and Deaths of Poets by J.T. Welsch Linda Black Irish Music MagazineA profound exploration of the connection between poetry and suicide. 'Suicides have a special language', Anne Sexton wrote in her 1964 poem 'Wanting to Die'. But is it a language we can learn to read? In The poetry of suicide, J. T. Welsch interweaves stories of poets who took their own lives with the long history of suicide in his own family, searching for a new way of understanding these difficult deaths. Beginning with Hamlet's 'To be or not to