"Nought may endure but Mutability," wrote Shelley, joining an imposing line of English poets to have tackled this theme of perpetual change, including Spenser, Shakespeare, Marvell and Wordsworth. Jo ...

Today's quote of the day is taken from the poem “Mutability,” written by renowned Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. It is a poem that reflects the poet’s deep preoccupation with change, impermanence ...

‘A lot of things jostle in my notebook, things that I have overheard, or heard about,’’ says the poet Jo Shapcott, the morning after winning this year’s Costa Book of the Year, and still sounding a ...

Of Mutability is, as its title suggests, a protean collection: the poems keep shifting ground, subtly transforming themselves – you need to watch Jo Shapcott like a hawk. Or, perhaps, like a barn owl.

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