Poetry Hut Blog
Tim Liardet

Poetry News:

1. I locked myself in my bedroom, dug way down, and wrote an even more bitter poem —
2. Without rhythm, verse is lifeless —
3. Police hunt for Didsbury scrawler —
4. Bradstreet’s popular and academic image is as deceptively complex and deep as her couplets —
5. This month’s shortlisted poets have tackled difficult subjects with skill, says Tim Liardet —
6. Poetry Please —

Mr McCracken Peck seems to have forgotten, for instance, that Squirrel Nutkin is reduced to a gibbering wreck by the final page

Serious Use for Silly String “…a New Jersey mother is organizing a drive to send cans of Silly String to Iraq…American troops use the stuff to detect trip wires around bombs….”

Poetry News:

1. T.S. Eliot’s Subway Metaphysics —
2. Poet Samantha Barrow rode cross-country on a mission of mercy —
3. Phillips receives American poets fellowship —
4. Drunk’s call to burn mosques was a poem —
5. In this workshop, I want you to tackle a similarly risky subject which you know will challenge a range of sensitivities, even political correctness —
6. From Book 1 of Paradise lost by John Milton —

Of course during this bout of record-breaking warm weather I have been sleeping a lot and haven’t been out enjoying it. There are even frogs singing in the woods at night. Friday will bring a change to that and maybe even some snow.

Some slight changes to this blog: some ads from Google. We’ll see how that goes. I haven’t gotten the hospital bills yet haha but they are in the back of my mind. Also, comments are closed after 2 weeks. That will cut down on spam comments. Almost 10,000 of them this year.