Appropriation, you’ve done it again! So if you’re still struggling to describe your fall poetry titles you’re in luck. Here’s a list of words you can add to your copy, mixing it up with tired old ones like “daring debut” or “fresh new voice” or “startling arrival” or “experimental” or “innovative.”
via OpenBookToronto
Numéro Cinq started January 11, 2010, as a reading, discussion and resource site for Douglas Glover‘s current Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing students who are also authors on the blog. It seems to have expanded (be expanding) into something else. Visitors are welcome. Already they form a large part of the community.
Like many of us, Larkin loved best the music he grew up with – in his case Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, the classic swing bands and the small groups led by Eddie Condon – and loathed the arrival of bebop and the further flights of modernism that followed.
Charles Spencer/The Telegraph (UK)
Cohen will take to the stage tonight for his second of two concerts at the house, following a ‘homecoming’ concert by Westlife which took place on Friday night. ‘‘When John spoke to us, we were closed and were not considering anything like this, but when it was Leonard Cohen, who is such a Yeats fan and such a great poet himself, it would have been dreadful to say no,” said Isobel Cassidy, manager of Lissadell Estate and sister of Constance.
Sunday Business Post (Ireland)
Poetry, the most precise and precious of literary forms, is also so far the least adaptable to the growing e-book market. A three-line stanza might be expanded to four if a line is too long or a four-line stanza compressed into three if the second and fourth lines have sharp indentations, as with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “Hymn to the Night.”
Hillel Italie/The Associated Press
Christian Bok will be on CBC Radio’s ‘Q’ (hosted by Jian Ghomeshi) this Monday, January 5, to talk about the success of his bestselling poetry book Eunoia, in the UK. Eunoia was just released this fall in England by Canongate, and it’s causing quite a stir across the pond.
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The United States has had a head of state who was also a great writer. Only Marcus Aurelius can compete with Abraham Lincoln. Like many prose masters, Lincoln was a reader and writer of poetry.
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I spoke with Sharon McCartney about her recently published collection of poetry For and Against. She read three poems from the book, we discussed the duality of the title and listened to her tea carafe serenade us in the kitchen. Click through to find the podcast.
