A 93-year-old man from Hampshire laments his late wife of 65 years in an adorably endearing poem that tugs tight on the heartstrings. Appearing on the 5 Live Breakfast show on BBC Radio, Bob Lowe ...

This poem is from a sequence of sonnets about the consequences of losing his sight in old age. Poem selected by Matthew Zapruder. Credit Illustration by R. O. Blechman ...

FALLING AND FLYING: POEMS ON AGEING Edited by Judith Beveridge and Dr Susan Ogle, illustrated by Dr Richard Wu Brandl & Schlesinger, $29.95 Out of a slow building social and demographic crisis ...