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Finding Louis MacNeice: a reading of ‘Entirely’
Louis MacNeice’sbest pieceshave a philosophical cast and an untidy metre that only makes them neater. https://poems-for-you.com/poems/mru8-entirely/ In this poem, as usual, MacNeice is counting beats, or stresses, rather than syllables. Every stanza has eight lines, which…
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Finding Peter Sansom: sentences from ‘Lanyard’
Peter Sansommay be handsomebut his syntax is whatmakes him hot. Here is a handful of sentences, stripped of the line-breaks, from poems in ‘Lanyard’ (Carcanet, 2022), which book we considered in the Finding Poetry book…
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Finding Christopher Reid: a reading of ‘Death of a Barber’
Christopher Reidis forced to concede,whenever he gets the blues,that he edited the letters of both Heaney and Hughes. A man of letters. And with regards to Hughes and Heaney, Reid also edited their poems, when he…
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Finding Jeffrey Harrison: a reading of ‘The One That Got Away’
Jeffrey Harrison’s collections are published in the US and not available through Griffin Books, except his selected poems ‘The Names for Things’ published by the excellent Waywiser Press, which was my own first introduction to…
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Finding Louis Jenkins: links to 4 poems
Louis Jenkinswrites a sentenceand then another. No heartachesabout line-breaks. One way I think about poems is as generalised jokes. Reductionist, for sure — but if a joke is a short text that amuses, then a poem is a…
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Finding Kim Addonizio: a reading of ‘Near Heron Lake’
Kim Addonizioskewers you ab initio.Her first lineshave tines. These notes were written to introduce Addonizio to the Finding Poetry book club, at a meeting in which we considered ‘Wild Nights’, a selected poems published by…
Welcome to my blog
I intend to publish occasional short pieces about poetry. Some of these connect with the poetry book club ‘Finding Poetry’ which I run in collaboration with Griffin Books, Penarth.
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