Poetry
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Sharon Olds: 'I've tried to make sense of my life ... make a small embodiment of ordinary life, from a daughter's, wife's, mother's point of view' -
Did Robert Browning do away with Elizabeth Barrett? Elizabeth Lowry looks to his dramatic monologue 'My Last Duchess' for clues
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Every month, a different poet sets an exercise, chooses the most interesting responses from readers and offers an appraisal of them
Latest reviews
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Aug 16 2008:
Mahmoud Darwish, who died a week ago today, was one of the great Arab poets of modern times, writes Mourid Barghouti
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Aug 2 2008:
Critical eye: A warm reception for a fictional take on Ivor Gurney's life and a new look at French identity in the aftermath of the Revolution
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Jul 20 2008:
Review: Edward Thomas - The Annotated Collected Poems edited by Edna Longley
An annotated edition of Edward Thomas's glorious verse sheds new light on an incisive poet of subtlety and cunning, says Adam Phillips
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Jul 12 2008:
Review: Gloria and The Hat, by Selima Hill
Selima Hill plumbs the depths and unearths more gems. By Fiona Sampson -
Jul 5 2008:
Review: MUDe by John Redmond
Robert Potts is moved by a blend of memory, perception and imagination
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Aug 20 2008:
Cambridge University graduate Kate Miller has won the inaugural Edwin Morgan International Poetry Competition for her poem After the Ban
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Aug 20 2008:
The idea of revision presupposes a vision, an original which enables the return visit. Poets faced with a prodigious library of forebears, continue precisely because they see opportunities for further exploration of ideas and emotions touched on by previous books. The Guyanese writer, Wilson Harris, characterises this process of return to an unfinished legacy as a creative act of engaging with infinity, of never accomplishing a satisfactory end because the engagement requires a continuous assessment
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Aug 16 2008:
Mahmoud Darwish, who died a week ago today, was one of the great Arab poets of modern times, writes Mourid Barghouti
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Aug 15 2008:
Jackie Kay: Jeremy Paxman was wrong to insult Robert Burns. Which other poet is celebrated, on his birthday, from Nigeria to Newtonmore?
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Aug 15 2008:
Kate Clanchy is moved by this month's Leonard Cohen-inspired verse
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Aug 14 2008:
Richard Silverstein: Mahmoud Darwish, who died last week, should have been honoured as a national poet of both Palestinians and Israelis
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Aug 12 2008:
Mahmoud Darwish is dead, but the voice of the Palestinian resistance will live on in all of us, says Ahdaf Soueif
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Gallery (8 pictures),
Aug 11 2008:
The Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, a major figure in Arab literature and a symbol of Palestinian nationalism, has died aged 67, after complications following heart surgery in the US
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Aug 11 2008:
Obituary: Poet, author and politician who helped to forge a Palestinian consciousness after the six-day war in 1967
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Aug 9 2008:
It's a green hollow where a spring gushes
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Aug 6 2008:
Performance poet Lemn Sissay performs his poem Godsell around London's South Bank
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Aug 5 2008:
Performance poet Ty presents the best of the spoken word content at the 2008 Big Chill festival at Eastnor. We hear from Jean Binta Breeze, John Hegley, Bill Bailey, Kim Trusty, Ital Source, D'Archetypes and Toby Litt
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Aug 3 2008:
Alex Clark: The sunkissed-red poets' club
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Aug 2 2008:
It does not keep you safe; it does not |
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Aug 2 2008:
Critical eye: A warm reception for a fictional take on Ivor Gurney's life and a new look at French identity in the aftermath of the Revolution
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