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Poetry Month 2012. 21: Theory of Marriage (The Hug)
Mark Doty’s Theories and Apparitions contains four Theories of Beauty, two Theories of Marriage, Theories of the Soul, Multiplicity, Narrative, the Sublime and Incompletion, five Apparitions and another eight poems along similar themes. This kind of duplication often bugs me, … Continue reading
Poetry Month 2012. 20: Birds
Carrying on the theme of Hughes from yesterday, here’s a poem by Frieda Hughes. Birds The poet as a penguin Sat in his snow-cold, nursing The egg his wife had left him. There it was, born of them both, Like … Continue reading
Poetry Month 2012. 19: The Blackbird
It’s my birthday. I’ve said before that I don’t really like Ted Hughes’ poetry. Birthday Letters is an exception. It’s an immensely powerful collection. It carries a heavy weight – everything you know and “know” about Sylvia Plath, her life, … Continue reading
Poetry Month 2012. 18: La carte postale
Ahren Warner is 26, his first book-length collection is Confer, published by Bloodaxe, but several of its poems are also contained in his earlier Donut Press book, Re:. I bought this on a whim when I bought Apocryphya, as I … Continue reading
Poetry Month 2012. 17: Circus Pony
This is from Heidi Williamson’s debut collection, Electric Shadow, I find its treatment of marriage and children interesting. Circus Pony Each evening after school you met like lovers. You angled offerings through the tired wire fence – she accepted as … Continue reading
Book Sharing Monday: Night Monkey, Day Monkey
Night Monkey, Day Monkey is one of Polly’s library books that she really enjoyed. It was written by Julia Donaldson of Gruffalo fame, and illustrated by Lucy Richards. As per most of Julia Donaldson’s books, it has a lovely accessible … Continue reading
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Poetry Month 2012. 16: The Sari
I mentioned yesterday Duffy’s anthology Out of Fashion. Like Answering Back, it invites contemporary poets to submit a poem on a theme, and choose a poem on the same theme by a poet from another time or culture. However this … Continue reading
Poetry Month 2012. 15: Cousin Coat
I took two books downstairs this morning to flick through and find a poem to share. They were Sean O’Brien’s The Drowned Book, which won both the Forward Prize and the TS Eliot prize in 2007, and another anthology edited … Continue reading
Kitchen Table Tycoon
Something, I’m not sure what, made me think that borrowing this book from the library was a good idea. Anita Naik’s Kitchen Table Tycoon: How to Make It Work as a Mother and an Entrepreneur sounded to me, at the … Continue reading
Poetry Month 2012. 14: Treasure Arcade
I somehow missed this at the time, but Jon Stone, for Poetry Day 2011, wrote a sequence of poems, Treasure Arcade, on the theme of games. The next two paragraphs are copied straight from the book, in way of explanation. … Continue reading