NPR

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Poet Lee Bennett Hopkins edited the new children's book, in which poets reflect on paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Rather than describing the painting, it's what they feel," he says.

Literary Hub

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For this next installment in a series of interviews with contemporary poets, Peter Mishler interviews Jenny Johnson. Jenny Johnson’s poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry 2012, New England Review, Troubling the Line: Trans & Genderqueer Poe

Literary Hub

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In April 1948, Wallace Stevens received a letter from a nun. Her name was Sister Mary Bernetta Quinn, and she was completing her PhD at the University of Wisconsin. It was their first correspondence, and she’d enclosed some notes on his poetry, for w

Literary Hub

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The style guides say: keep your sentences short. Write cleanly, cut as many words as you can, and don’t overburden your reader’s short-term memory by delaying the arrival of the full stop. But sometimes a sentence just needs to be long. The world res

Fairlady

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Middelvlei Momberg Pinotage 2018 (R400) is so delicious it’s totally worth the price. Made to celebrate the 100 years that the Momberg family have been on the farm, it’s smooth and full of ripe fruit flavours – abit like drinking John Keats’s ode ‘To

The Millions

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For all their ubiquity in texts and emails, exclamation marks call attention toward themselves in poems: they stand straight up. The post A Meditation on Exclamation Marks in Contemporary Poetry (!) appeared first on The Millions.

Country Life

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IN her memoir of life with her poet husband, Edward, Under Storm’s Wing, Helen Thomas recalled the time when the American poet Robert Frost came to Dymock with his family and joined in the life of a creative hub. ‘We spent those happy weeks in the op

The American Poetry Review

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Kaveh Akbar and Jane Hirshfield have been in a running e-mail conversation since January 2016, when Akbar first contacted Hirshfield about doing an interview in his Divedapper series, before his first, widely acclaimed book, Calling a Wolf a Wolf (Al

The Oldie

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‘Norman, is there any chance you could just bear it – without the grinning?’ Jargon, jargon everywhere: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ Tiger burning: William Blake, ‘The Tyger’ Etherised upon a table: T S Eliot, ‘The Love

BBC Music Magazine

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Philip Larkin (above) was born in Coventry in 1922 and lived in the city until he was 18, co-editing his school magazine, The Coventrian. There are multiple dedications to the poet, including a pub (the sports bar type, bizarrely) and a plaque at the

Chat

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University College, Oxford, has a room dedicated to a memorial to which poet, despite having expelled them as a student? The prize answer is the one missing from the grid. ANGELOU ARMITAGE BURNS BYRON DUFFY ELIOT KEATS KIPLING LARKIN MILTON PLATH POP

Literary Hub

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“Perhaps one source of malaise is my non-writing,” Philip Larkin complained in a 1971 letter. “I feel very much that my twenty or so poems aren’t very good, & need good ones, all of The Whitsun Weddings standing, to buck them up, only I can’t get aro

Country Life

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1795 Born in Moorgate, London, on October 31 1816 Publication of first poem, O Solitude. Despite qualifying as a licensed apothecary, abandons his studies to become a surgeon and turns to poetry 1817 First volume, Poems, is published to scornful re

Literary Hub

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Nineteen years old, I sat at a long table in a small room, a poem in front of me. “Harry Ploughman” by Gerard Manley Hopkins felt impenetrable. A jumble of syntax. Frequent semicolons and dashes choked my reading. While I listened to my professor spe

BBC Countryfile Magazine

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Born on 21 October 1772, Coleridge grew up in rural Devon. He was just eight years old when his father – a vicar and headmaster – died suddenly. A place for him was arranged at Christ’s Hospital School in London, where his love of reading blossomed.

NPR

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For the second consecutive year, NPR teams up with globalFEST for a thrilling online music festival we call Tiny Desk Meets globalFEST.

Audio Technology

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APRA AMCOS’s SongHubs is a global program. As well as Australia’s capital cities, invitees can find themselves flying across oceans to hubs like LA, Nashville and London, or India, Toronto, and the latest addition, Brazil. Milly Petriella, APRA AMCOS

Dance Australia

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Most of us learn best in a collaborative environment with input and inspiration from multiple sources. So Expressions Dance Company wanted to bring together some of the best dancers from around Australia for its 2020 EDC Contemporary Dance Intensives

Tatler Traveller Philippines

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Savoie Mont Blanc January 12-23, 2019 Join thousands of spectators in the French and Swiss Alps to witness one of the most challenging sled dog races in the world. Taking place over 12 days and 400 kilometres at different altitudes, 25 of the best mu

The Christian Science Monitor

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Shared reading memories I was enchanted by Robert Klose’s Sept. 4 Home Forum essay, “How I became a reader of books.” It brought back memories of my more than threescore years of reading, even as a small child. Having experienced the pleasure of boo

Writing Magazine

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Win £1,000 first prize, and an Arvon course, in the annual poetry competition from Ledbury Poetry Festival. Second and third prizes are £500 and £250. The competition is for original, unpublished poems up to 40 lines. This year’s judge is Joelle Tayl

Country Life

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‘In my beginning is my end’ T. S. Eliot, ‘East Coker’, Four Quartets,  reversing the last words of Mary, Queen of Scots (‘In my end is my beginning’) ‘I believe... one of the reasons was that the Christian scheme seemed to me the only one which would

Woman's Weekly

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Fancy discovering poetry? Early Wordsworth is a great place to start – try Lyrical Ballads (written with Samuel Taylor Coleridge). Easy to ridicule for his middle-class sensibility, but great fun to read and massively better than his reputation sugg

Country Life

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Aided by its setting, only seconds away from the Heath the poet so loved, Keats House Museum is among the most affecting of the nation's literary shrines. Keats lived there from 1818–20, when it was known as Wentworth Place, and the Regency villa (mo

Country Life

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April 1911 The Abercrombies settle at The Gallows in Ryton 1911 Rupert Brooke's collection Poems is published 1912 The first volume of Georgian Poetry-featuring verse by Lascelles Abercrombie, Gordon Bottomley, Rupert Brooke, G. K. Chesterton, Walt

Country Life

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The thoughts to which he gave expression… will be shared by many thousands of young men moving resolutely and blithely forward into this, the hardest, cruellest, and the least rewarded of all the wars that men have fought Sir Winston Churchill All

Literary Hub

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We asked 48 poets and writers to recommend one book of poetry they loved in 2017. Their choices are below…  The Respondents · Damiano Abeni · Kaveh Akbar · Dan Beachy-Quick · Dodie Bellamy · Charles Bernstein · Anselm Berrigan · Jonah Bokaer · Lee An

Country Life

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Although Rupert Brooke is classed as a War Poet, he died in 1915 and his experience of action was limited to a single day during the evacuation of Antwerp. Trench poets, such as Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen and Isaac Rosenberg, are now more highly

Woman

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by Polly Crosby (£12.99, HarperCollins, HB) Romilly’s eccentric father is struggling with early-onset dementia. On finding fame with a series of children’s books starring his daughter, readers become convinced that his beautiful illustrations contain

Metal Hammer UK

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PROSTHETIC Switzerland’s sonic adventurers reach a scintillating new peak SCHAMMASCH MASTERMIND C.S.R’S vision for the band has always been of biblical proportions, presenting their high-concept, Babylonian black metal in ever more sonically and visu