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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Poetry Month 2012. 13: from Apocrypha

Apocrypha is a pamphlet by A B Jackson, published by Donut Press. It’s a tenner for 21 poems in a lusciously produced vo lume, which you can buy directly from the publisher. The word apocrypha refers to books of the … Continue reading

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Poetry Month 2012. 12: On the Day that you were Born

I haven’t got round to ordering anything from my massive Easter list yet, so don’t feel too naughty adding Kathryn Simmonds’ Sunday at the Skin Launderette. I share with you this cheerful gem:      On the Day that you were Born … Continue reading

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Poetry Month 2012: 11. The Customer’s Complaint

By John Hegley The Customer’s Complaint In the caff swapping some of her spaghetti for a bit of his moussaka she considered what a benefit it was having a partner when you both wanted the same two separate meals on … Continue reading

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