A Difficult Balance With Pain
A Reading Life, A Writing Life, with Sally Bayley
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Show Notes
For Demi.
‘And the heaviest nuns walk in a pure floating / Of dark habits, / keeping their difficult balance.’
This week, Sally has been living with Richard Wilbur’s ‘Love Calls Us to the Things of the World’, and reflecting on living with pain. Balance with her on the precipices we all exist on…
The poem can be read here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43048/love-calls-us-to-the-things-of-this-world
This episode was edited and produced by James Bowen.
Special thanks to Andrew Smith, Violet Henderson, Kris Dyer, and Maeve Magnus.