Selected by Dr Oliver Tearle ‘Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent’, as Ludwig Wittgenstein put it. For Adrienne Rich, ‘Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.’ With these thoughts in mind, we’ve gathered together ten of the best poems about silence, being silent, and […]
Tag: Silence
Say Nothing: A History of Silence
In this week’s Dispatches from The Secret Library, Dr Oliver Tearle contemplates silence, courtesy of Alain Corbin’s new book I wasn’t intending to write about this book this week. But then on Monday night, I learnt of the death of Mark Hollis, the lead singer of the 1980s and early […]