Most days, my site referers are funny ha-ha–for example, a Portuguese machine-translation that rendered my “Shiver me timbers” into “tirita eu madeiras” and “Cambridge, MA” into “Cambridge, miliampere.”
Sometimes, however, I wish the site referer had somehow led to a better, deeper person. Yesterday, somebody ended up at my site from a search for “versus on poetry when people in trouble.”
In case anybody does that search again: I wish I could help you, and I really can’t. But I do know who can–John Nolan, a Scotsman now living in Farmington, NH.
I stumbled on one of Nolan’s essays last week– Poets who matter 3: John Clare”–part of an ongoing series. Each essay embraces not only poetry but also
- The ongoing search for a poet laureate for Rochester, NH.
- Nolan’s police work in tough bits of Glasgow.
- (Very much between the lines) Life, the universe, and everything.
This essay series (only 4 poets so far) is so recent I doubt it’s included in his longer work, The Poems and Songs of Farmington Corner. I’m going to get a copy for myself, and I bet that if you read some Nolan you’ll want one too.