Creation Chained to a Stunned Repose by Daniel Tobin

You must grieve for this right now —you have to feel this sorrow now— for the world must be loved this much...

‘Caution, daring, and the need for shelter mark the story of Cave Canem that Cornelius Eady is telling me’

“…it’s like the bloody Dead Poets Society sometimes”

‘Ulysses and The Waste Land were instant classics, yet The Cantos have remained an outlier…’

‘Hix’s poetry is not merely philosophical, but a type of philosophy’

“Negative reviews help poetry.”

Jazra Khaleed: ‘Greek society has the blood of immigrants on its hands’

“When you are a writer, you are a patriot of your apartment,” Zagajewski said.

Tip to conquer American poetry: ‘Your friends are really just contacts, and you have to think of them that way. If dropping their name isn’t worth anything, you may have to ditch them’

Molly Young: Ducatis, ‘muffdiving’ and Seidel the rake poet

Approximately 86,000,000 poems will be published in the 21st century, so will the truly titanic poets fall victim to this new math of poetry?

(‘the poetry of self-promotion’)

‘An initiation in infinitude was the gift Dickinson offered to the few she admitted to intimacy…’

Catherine Douillet on Postcolonial Conflicts and Cross-Cultural Fertilization in Derek Walcott’s Poetry

Vis and Ramin/Tristan and Iseult: is there a direct connection between these poems of courtly love?

‘As part of a modern all-volunteer force, today’s soldier-writers explore the timeless theme of the futility of war – but wars that they for the most part support’

‘In order to write a Nabati camel poem properly, you need to have not only seen one of the animals, but to have milked one, scrubbed one, maybe had one spit in your face…’

Orwell’s Cuppa

The tea should be strong. For a pot holding a quart, if you are going to fill it nearly to the brim, six heaped teaspoons would be about right...

The thing about new blooms is that they tend to bleed— / Those petals birthed / hugging close / that come warmer weather are tricked into jumping away...

‘from An Explanation of America: Countries and Explanations’ by Robert Pinsky

Farah Abdessamad on François-René de Chateaubriand

I spent a good part of my childhood at home staring outside my bedroom window, following the trail of planes approaching the nearby Paris airport in the sky from my banlieue. I envied the passengers...

The tea should be strong. For a pot holding a quart, if you are going to fill it nearly to the brim, six heaped teaspoons would be about right...

The thing about new blooms is that they tend to bleed— / Those petals birthed / hugging close / that come warmer weather are tricked into jumping away...

Creation Chained to a Stunned Repose by Daniel Tobin

Frank Kermode: Eliot’s Shudder

Rabindranath Tagore’s Orient

‘Caution, daring, and the need for shelter mark the story of Cave Canem that Cornelius Eady is telling me’

“…it’s like the bloody Dead Poets Society sometimes”

‘Ulysses and The Waste Land were instant classics, yet The Cantos have remained an outlier…’

‘Hix’s poetry is not merely philosophical, but a type of philosophy’

“Negative reviews help poetry.”

Drinking, driving and longing

Jazra Khaleed: ‘Greek society has the blood of immigrants on its hands’

“When you are a writer, you are a patriot of your apartment,” Zagajewski said.

Tip to conquer American poetry: ‘Your friends are really just contacts, and you have to think of them that way. If dropping their name isn’t worth anything, you may have to ditch them’

Molly Young: Ducatis, ‘muffdiving’ and Seidel the rake poet

Approximately 86,000,000 poems will be published in the 21st century, so will the truly titanic poets fall victim to this new math of poetry?

(‘the poetry of self-promotion’)

‘An initiation in infinitude was the gift Dickinson offered to the few she admitted to intimacy…’

Catherine Douillet on Postcolonial Conflicts and Cross-Cultural Fertilization in Derek Walcott’s Poetry

Vis and Ramin/Tristan and Iseult: is there a direct connection between these poems of courtly love?

‘As part of a modern all-volunteer force, today’s soldier-writers explore the timeless theme of the futility of war – but wars that they for the most part support’

‘In order to write a Nabati camel poem properly, you need to have not only seen one of the animals, but to have milked one, scrubbed one, maybe had one spit in your face…’

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