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Poetry & Poets in Rags (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
has belonged to older writers. Few young poets were published and fewer were nominated for major prizes. An invitation to a poetry reading conjured thoughts of warm white wine in a pokey bookshop," claim the editors. Really? What about Simon Armitage, who published his first collection at 26, Owen Sheers (ditto), or Kathleen Jamie (aged 20)? What about Carol Ann Duffy, whose first collection came...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
A new collection showcases young poets whose work soars above the tired editorial clichés In 1962, Penguin published an anthology edited by Al Alvarez, bombastically entitled The New Poetry . Alvarez introduced his selection with a now-famous essay in which he expressed his belief that the postwar English literary scene had become insular and moribund, its poetry calcifying into the "academic-administrative...
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Poetry & Poets in Rags (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
the impression of not being afraid of talking about anything, whether that's monsters, ghosts, quicksand or the taboo subjects which in the past have been told to stand outside the door of children's literature. CAD welcomes in forbidden words, love and sex. There are many signs here that she is also the teacher's friend. from Michael Rosen: The Guardian: New and Collected Poems for Children by Carol...
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katrina's reads (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
I had many plans for this morning; a stroll along the river up to the library among crunchy leaves, cleaning the whole house, making vegi bolognase and peanut butter cookies from scratch. However I woke up to the sound of heavy rain and I still have my horrid cold, so I've pottered about and generally just been waiting for the read-a-thon to start. As we're starting in England at 1pm (probably one...
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Avoiding the Muse (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
"Poetry and theatre are part of the same stream, and yet there's often a perceived division between the two. I wonder why. Poets often write for the stage, they collaborate with theatre makers or have versions of their work brought to the stage by others – as in The World's Wife, based on the poems of Carol Ann Duffy – but the area where the two forms swim closest together is that...
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Qwerty Queen (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Great comedy gig last night: Simon Amstell , supported by Arnab Chanda . I'd never heard of Mr Chanda but he was very funny. "What do butterflies get in their tummies when they're nervous? It can't be butterflies. They would just be pregnant." There were similarities between the two acts: both men were skinny, clever, fizzing with energy, slightly surreal, self-deprecating, self-mocking....
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
TS Eliot is given the title of 'nation's favourite poet' by an online poll hosted by the BBC to mark National Poetry Day The rousing strains of Rudyard Kipling's "If" might have catapulted him to a landslide victory in the vote for the nation's favourite poem back in 1995, but the reading tastes of the UK appear to have taken a more modernist turn over the following 14 years with TS Eliot...
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Spellmaking (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
Today is National Poetry Day (here in the UK.) There's a whole variety of poetry-related stuff over on the web site, including an e-card of Carol Ann Duffy's new poem Atlas that you can send to your poetic (and, even better, non-poetic) friends. Poetry is something I should do more of. The problem is that the fictional ideas and characters tend to muscle their way to the front, drowning out the voices...
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Poetry & Poets in Rags (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
News Article Tape: ( ragline )___ The West Roxbury Transcript: Iranian 'dissident' talks about imprisonment for poetry to Roxbury Latin ___( ragline )___ The Middle East Media Research Institute: Extremists in Saudi Arabia Set Fire to Culture Club to Prevent Woman Poet's Public Appearance ___( ragline )___ Swans Commentary: The Poet Who Would Not Be Expelled From History ___( ragline )___ asiaone:...
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Poetry & Poets in Rags (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
Carol Ann Duffy from The Daily Mirror: Poetry corner: The Bathers of the Ladies' Pond also Telegraph: Carol Ann Duffy: Interview ~~~~~~~~~~~
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Poetry & Poets in Rags (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
Dear Poetry Aficionados, IBPC: Poetry & Poets in Rags The Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival is back on for 2010. This is our Back Page story. It seems that metaphors are more body-based than you might think, and at the root of thought itself. This is our fourth story in News at Eleven. The Guardian ran a climate change special this Saturday, which drew poems from Carol Ann Duffy and Andrew Motion...
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Poetry & Poets in Rags (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
by John Hartley Williams from The Guardian: 10:10 Review climate change special: Brief briefing on the reds by John Hartley Williams ~~~~~~~~~~~ The Spider by Kathleen Jamie from The Guardian: 10:10 Review climate change special: The Spider by Kathleen Jamie ~~~~~~~~~~~ Virgil's Bees by Carol Ann Duffy from The Guardian: 10:10 Review climate change special: Virgil's Bees by Carol Ann Duffy ~~~~~~~~~~~...
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West End Lane Books' Blog (Free subscription) | 09/16/2009
...we refer, of course , to the South Bank, where from now until early December the great and the good rub shoulders at the Literature and Spoken Word Festival, including special events around this year's National Poetry Day (October 8th) and a whole day of festivites celebrating 30 years of the incomparable Hitchhiker's Guide . Other highlights of a packed and tempting schedule include: Agatha Christie...
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Silliman's Blog (Free subscription) | 07/31/2009
Remembering Simon Vinkenoog § The death of handwriting § Nicholson Baker on the future of reading Q&A Google has its own plan & the ACLU is not amused § Kerouac estate battle takes a new twist § Terry Gross talking with Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno § Counter-Revolution of the Word reviewed in Against the Current § Some suggestions from the Salt Summer Sizzler Sale...
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