Simon Korner

For the Union Dead

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In his elegy 'For the Union Dead', the 20th Century American poet Robert Lowell raised from their mass graves the black soldiers who died in battle against slavery.

Nazim Hikmet: ‘We must live as if we will never die’

A self portrait: Nazim Hikmet in his prison cell, 1946

Two poems by the great Turkish poet Nazim Hikmet, 'Some Advice To Those Who Will Spend Time in Prison' and 'On Living', show us that life, for all its grief, is the most beautiful thing. It should be lived for humanity and for the future.