In a modest house on Wilson Street in Perth, Scotland, a small attic room served as both prison and sanctuary for one of Scotland's most remarkable twentieth-century poets. From this confined space, William Soutar would pen some of the most enduring children's verse in Scots literature while simultaneously crafting deeply personal meditations on mortality, isolation, and the human condition. His story is one of extra…
“Though the desire for women troubles the body and the mind, I am yet glad that desire is still so alive in me, for its death would be ominous of creative moribundity.”
Neighbourhood:
Death & Mortality, Nature Poets, Scottish Poets
Emotional landscape: Wonder, Spirituality, Peace
Catherine Marthe Louise Pozzi remains one of the most enigmatic and haunting figures in French poetry, a writer who distilled an entire spiritual autobiography into just six extraordinary poems while living a life marked by privilege, passion, illness, and relentless intellectual pursuit. Born on July 13, 1882, into the glittering aristocratic and bourgeois milieu of fin-de-siècle Paris, and dying on December 3, 1934…
“Je ne veux pas être heureuse, je veux être entière.”
Neighbourhood:
French Symbolists, Love Poets, Modernist Poets, Symbolist Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Sorrow, Despair
