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Poetry News:

— Victorian poet Gerard Manley Hopkins is so moved by a shipwreck that he starts writing again —

— Quiet, dear, Mummy’s writing —

— Pulp Fiction was a seminal film. Will Shakespeare was a seminal poet. Obviously it follows that the two should be mixed together, which is exactly what has been done at Pulp [...]

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Poetry News:

— Mail sorter’s poems win $65,000 prize —

— Hopkins’s syntax is so mangled, the lines so packed with heavy plodding accents and stilted comma stops, that he speaks as if through a chokehold —

— A pair of fine collections from Philadelphia poets who fervently put their wanderings to words —

— after the last customer [...]

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Poetry News:

In these columns, famed poet Wislawa Szymborska answered letters from ordinary people who wanted to write poetry —

Nancy Krygowski, literacy instructor for the Greater Pittsburgh Literacy Council, is winner of this year’s Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize —

Poetic madness in Edinburgh’s lunatic asylum —

Shoppers threaten to topple father of Russian literature —

GM Hopkins poem [...]

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