Poetry News For December 13, 2008
Poetry News:
- — Wordsmiths see inauguration’s poetic possibilities —
- — Poetry Roundup —
- — Advert for brothel mistaken for classical Chinese poem —
- — Reclaiming a Poet: Old Words, New Music —
- — In this section from John Gay’s mock-epic, a sewer goddess helps an orphan and gives rise to an enjoyable flight of fancy —
- — The Tricky Art of the Self-Destructing Poem —
- — On the 400th anniversary of John Milton’s birth, we should remember him as a pamphleteer who set up the struggle for English liberty —
- — This review of my Indian poetry book is full of patronising cliches —
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