This week’s poem of the week is Phyllis McGinley’s “Intimations of Mortality: On being told by the dentist that this will be over soon”.

It was rather hard to find a half way decent presentation of the poem on the internet. In spite of being a modern female poet (a trendy thing in this day and age) who hit the big time in her day and age, almost nothing Phyllis McGinley wrote can be found online. We can’t but help think that this is because she came down on the wrong side of the cultural wars that her generation fought.

Granted, she will never rank among the greatest poets of all time. But there are a lot worse poets than her who are more widely known simply because they had the right beliefs.