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Philip Larkin

Poetry News:

— Things fall apart: is the post-9/11 imagination disintegrating? —

— Happy Birthday, Archibald MacLeish! —

— Dante, Primo Levi and the intertextualists —

— On other occasions he complained he looked like “a cross between an egg and a bloodhound” and “an egg sculpted in lard, with goggles on” —

— It reminds me of the old [...]

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Poetry News:

— A Poem for the NCAA Basketball Tournament —

— Death, destruction and fear on the streets of cafes, poets and booksellers —

— What he would have us hearken to most closely is not the song the verse-maker spins inside his own head, but the common world’s melody, “the music of what happens” —

— It [...]

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Poetry News:

— Who can explain why the practice of poetry has become the object of so much satire and snide dismissal? [link found here thanks] —

— The Poem as Comic Strip #6 —

— For this, my farewell “Poet’s Choice” column, here are two poems related by a form: the sonnet —

— He is the leading [...]

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Poetry News:

— “The fact that your taste in poetry is exectable shouldn’t prevent us from having a vermouth together” —

— No contemporary poet is famous, but some are less unfamous than others —

— US poet and novelist Bukowski’s poems to be translated in Iran —

— Bigger Cars, Flip-Up Seats, Poetry: How Riders Would Run a [...]

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Poetry News:

— When she died a spinster of 55 in 1886 only five of her poems had been published, all anonymously —

— Woman nicknamed ‘lyrical terrorist’ escapes jail sentence —

— Made in Chicago: Wickedpen [ congrats ] —

— He is often poised discomfortingly and achingly between emotional immediacy and wiseass —

— Poet Maya Angelou’s [...]

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The online launch party for A Slice of Cherry Pie is today at 6pm Eastern Time, 5pm Nashville Time :), or 22:00 UTC/GMT/Zulu.
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Tags: Philip Larkin, Poetry, twin peaks

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Larkin’s lost notebook of love poems to go on sale for £20,000
Literature will not survive the 21st century
A Mystery That Ends In Poetry (requires bug me not)
For poet Kate Light, the conference will mark the release of “Gravity‘ Dream”
Costa takes literary prize from pub to coffee shop
Poetry with Billy Collins, Part II (NPR Fresh Air [...]

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And now for the poetry news:

The Penguin Classics Series has issued in a new paperback edition The Complete Poems of Andrew Marvell (requires bug me not)
New biography a fascinating account about East Texas poet
Unknown Larkin tapes found in attic
Between existence and non-existence, poet Robert Bly finds joy
The Berkeley crowd and a voice beyond
Paul Laurence Dunbar’s [...]

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With Larkin, admire the poetry, if not the poet
What to do with Capote, Frost, and Kissinger?
Frank X Walker’s poems reflect life’s journeys
Emperor New Year Poems
Google’s Grand Vision: Break The Law And Rip Off Writers

The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel anthology book has been released! Get them while they’re hot!

Tags: atlantic monthly, Frank X Walker, [...]

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