mourning – Patricia Lundy

Elegy for Sylvia: Ted Hughes’ Birthday Letters

Featured Image: Sylvia Plath’s grave in West Yorkshire, England (Flickr/ UncleBucko ) via WNYC (desaturated for this blog post). Red was your colour

Featured image via the enchanting WhiteWit.Ch. I haven’t posted an original blog post for a couple of weeks – have been

I’ve always been drawn to Victorian mourning rituals, especially the regalia of full mourning attire worn by new (often affluent)

Is there a difference between the two? As it turns out, yes. Clifford A. Pickover, author of Death and the

A couple of weeks ago I ordered the Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets book Poems of Mourning. The collection features myriad

Last week I finished my online course “Investigating the Victorians” through Oxford’s Department of Continuing Education. I was initially drawn

I love holidays because they make an otherwise normal week something special, and also allow pause for ritual. Tonight I

Featured Image: The Thanatos Archive’s website banner. The Archive’s mission is to “collect, preserve, and exhibit” post-mortem photographs from the

March 4, 2016

How we mourn the famous reveals something much larger about our culture as a whole: How we mourn the famous

shroud noun 1. a length of cloth or an enveloping garment in which a dead person is wrapped for burial