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May I add to the obituary of Fleur Adcock by mentioning her many collaborations with the composer Dame Gillian Whitehead, her friend and fellow New Zealander? They met in 1979 and were to collaborate seven times. Notable were the two...Monday, November 4, 2024 from Poetry | The Guardian
A minor tumble in the street gives a small indication of the larger risks a couple face and the consolations of mutual support My husband falling Time trips you like a pavement, says I’ll show you what falling’s for . It’s a stony lesson...Sunday, November 3, 2024 from Poetry | The Guardian
My sister Jehane Markham, who has died aged 75, was a playwright who wrote for radio, television and theatre. She also had her poetry published in five of her own collections. Jehane’s original BBC Radio 4 plays included More Cherry Cake...Saturday, November 2, 2024 from Poetry | The Guardian
The writer and academic on stories and poetry from Gaza, an exhibition of friendship, and the cat rescue website she prefers to dating apps Born and raised in Pakistan, Noreen Masud is a lecturer in 20th-century literature at Bristol...Friday, November 1, 2024 from Poetry | The Guardian
An Arbitrary Light Bulb by Ian Duhig; What the Earth Seemed to Say by Marie Howe; Collected Poems by Mimi Khalvati; Ceremony for the Nameless by Theresa Lola; Girl by Ruth Padel An Arbitrary Light B ulb by Ian Duhig (Picador, £12.99 )...Monday, October 28, 2024 from Poetry | The Guardian
Reflecting outward from minimal geometry, the poet renders large events at a granular scale Two poems from At the Dimensional Border In our battle to be rational, we posit, based on three points, a plane, and say it extends — not knowing...Sunday, October 27, 2024 from Poetry | The Guardian
Poets, artists, playwrights and musicians are fighting and dying in Ukraine, and their work is capturing the horror and emotion of the conflict Yaryna Chornohuz is a poised, thoughtful young woman with a sweep of long hair, elegantly...Friday, October 25, 2024 from Poetry | The Guardian
Martin Jennings – whose previous public sculptures include John Betjeman, George Orwell and Philip Larkin – has based his bronze on a life cast of the poet, taken when he was 21 A new bronze sculpture of the English Romantic poet John...Tuesday, October 22, 2024 from Poetry | The Guardian
Pulsating with tidal energy, the Dublin-based poet’s imaginative first collection is a harrowing wake-up call shot through with optimism Some therapists ask their clients, “What colour do you associate with that thought?” It is a popular...Tuesday, October 22, 2024 from Poetry | The Guardian
Poetry in protest event on 30 October will showcase how political change can be brought about through verse The British Academy is to pay tribute to the late poet Benjamin Zephaniah next week as part of a night of discussion and...Monday, October 21, 2024 from Poetry | The Guardian
The ghost of a black African woman whose body was abusively exhibited for white Europeans directs her own gaze to a different ideal of beauty The Hottentot Venus Hails Botticelli’s on the High Seas Venus, I am the other one cast in the...Sunday, October 20, 2024 from Poetry | The Guardian
One of the leading New Zealand and British poets of her generation who was fascinated by the past and ancestral voices Fleur Adcock, who has died aged 90, was one of the best loved and most esteemed poets in Britain and New Zealand. The...K-pop, K-movies, a Nobel prize … and now K-poetry: book of wise words adds to Korea’s cultural glory
Sunday, October 20, 2024 from Poetry | The Guardian
After Han Kang’s Nobel award and South Korean cinema hits, Penguin publishes new English edition of maxims by Lee Seong-bok in wake of US success A collection of wise maxims written by a 72-year old poet , calmly setting out illuminating...Tuesday, October 15, 2024 from Poetry | The Guardian
My aunt Patricia Hann, who has died aged 99, had a long career teaching English literature in a variety of private schools; she was also an accomplished poet. She was born into a lower middle-class family in Ilford, Essex, where money...Monday, October 14, 2024 from Poetry | The Guardian
The Northern Irish poet recounts his young son Micah’s audiological investigation and introduces us to another son who is also a poet The Silent Space Given a choice by the gentleman, my third-grader son elected to have me join him in...Friday, October 11, 2024 from Poetry | The Guardian
The Scottish author and poet is a warm, wry companion in an autobiographical collection of poems, written in the aftermath of her parents’ deaths An autobiographical collection by the poet and former Makar of Scotland, Jackie Kay, May...Thursday, October 10, 2024 from Poetry | The Guardian
Chang’s With My Back to the World takes the main £10,000 award while Marjorie Lotfi, Cindy Juyoung Ok and Leyla Josephine top other categories – making it an all-female winners list All four of the 2024 Forward prizes for poetry have...Wednesday, October 9, 2024 from Poetry | The Guardian
There is transformation, clarity and joy in this selection of work spanning more than six decades “I want this to be a small book, / a small, slight book, easy to carry, / the sort of book you would tuck in at the last minute / to read...Monday, October 7, 2024 from Poetry | The Guardian
This accidental prose poem is an apparently sacred address to group of young soldiers, which makes blisteringly clear what is being asked of God from The War Prayer “O Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth to...Friday, October 4, 2024 from Poetry | The Guardian
Collected Poems by Wendy Cope; Eat the World by Marina Diamandis; Unwritten Woman by Hannah Lavery; Agimat by Romalyn Ante; Monster by Dzifa Benson Collected Poems by Wendy Cope ( Faber, £20 ) Nearly 40 years after Making Cocoa for...Saturday, September 12, 2020 from Poetry
When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through collects the work of more than 160 poets. "A poem opens up time, it opens up memory, it opens up place," says Harjo, U.S. Poet Laureate.Monday, March 2, 2020 from Poetry Magazine
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