Poetry News For December 21, 2008
Poetry News:
- — A rare work by American poet Sylvia Plath has been found among books handed into a charity shop in Glasgow —
- — MLA reports 21% drop in positions in English and foreign languages — steepest decline in 34 years association has collected openings. —
- — Merry effing Christmas from the estate of TS Eliot! [you can hear/read it here neener neener]—
- — Hostage kept sane by Burns will toast the Lassies at special event —
- — A Christmassy theme this week, but it’s up to you whether or not it’s a merry one —
- — I wanted to read a poem to my gathered family before our Christmas meal. Could you recommend several? What would your top five Christmas poems be? —
- — Poet’s Senedd session slammed by Church —
Happy solstice.
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The only Christmas poem I know (being Jewish, but being the child of literary parents) is “A Child’s Christmas in Wales” which I guess qualifies as more of a very long prose poem.
And all I remembered for years was the line “Let’s call Ernie Jenkins, he likes fires.”