The Poetry of Suicide: Lessons in Grief from the Lives and Deaths of Poets by J.T. Welsch AK Blakemore at the ever-present possibility of

at the ever-present possibility of its departure

striking the drum of political

and hunger into wisdom

Alison Brackenbury's poems are haunted by horses

as the poets channel Ovid’s mischief and whisper tales of just and unjust deserts

The Poetry of Suicide: Lessons in Grief from the Lives and Deaths of Poets by J.T. Welsch AK Blakemore at the ever-present possibility ofA 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