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Crow's Fall

mf wrote 3 days ago: So it’s Wednesday and I’ve nothing much to say so why not another Crow poem on One Eyed … more →

Tags: Poem, Poetry, Toulouse Street, Crow

Ted Hughes In Poets' Corner?

Taylor Bright wrote 4 days ago: Seamus Heaney says Ted Hughes belongs with Geoffrey Chaucer, William Blake, and T.S. Eliot at Poets … more →

Tags: Books, Seamus Heaney

Wodwo

Meryl Pugh wrote 1 week ago: Up until this week, I had never read it, Wodwo – neither the collection or the poem itself tha … more →

Tags: creatures, Poetry, writing, Wodwo

Writing out loud3 comments

idcoach wrote 1 week ago: Last week was spent in deepest, darkest, stormiest Yorkshire on a writing course (www.arvonfoundatio … more →

Tags: Creativity, Learning, writing, Arvon

The Truth The Dead Know1 comment

darksatanicmills wrote 1 week ago: ‘IN BED, HE SMELLS LIKE A BUTCHER’ I couldn’t help but think of Assia Wevill … more →

Tags: Poetry, Books, Adelle Stripe, Assia Wevil, Lumb Bank, Heptonstall, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Robert Lowell

A Sylvia Plath Sort of Christmas Present

the wanderer wrote 3 weeks ago: You know you’re an English major if you think this is one of the most hilarious ideas ever … more →

Tags: General Posts, don't put your head into an oven please it's dangerous, feminist poetry critics, John Keats, suicidal poets, Sylvia Plath, Sylvia Plath oven mitts, why poets are supposed to be good when they are morbid

Vidyan Ravinthiran: Ted Hughes and Poetic Embarrassment1 comment

versepalace wrote 3 weeks ago: Here is a terrific bit of prose, Ted Hughes on Shakespeare: However a post-Restoration sensibility m … more →

Tags: Free Verse, Lineation, Prose, e verse, George Saintsbury, rhythm, Voice

Sunday Morning Back Matter

Taylor Bright wrote 3 weeks ago: Sometimes things elude my notice on my Saturday round-up. These are those things. Ted HughesThe lett … more →

Tags: Books, back matter, John Cheever, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Charles Dickens, Liam McIlvanney, john cooper clarke

Friday Links

jacobpedia wrote 4 weeks ago: Quick links for Friday morning: First things first: if you’re only going to follow one person … more →

Tags: Links, Alexis de Tocqueville, Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Bob Dylan, Chuck Klosterman, Leonard Cohen, old hoss radbourn, Sylvia Plath

a plume of blood

shigekuni wrote 1 month ago: Ted Hughes: Thistles Against the rubber tongues of cows and the hoeing hands of men Thistles spike t … more →

Tags: poem-of-the-day

13 Crows

mf wrote 1 month ago: After Mr. Hughes and Mr. Stevens 1. Blacktop carrion delights on soft August asphalt. Death: sour, w … more →

Tags: Poetry, Crows, Wallace Stevens, 13

Flying to Chicago, Paper Towns, Poetic Pikes, and Why the Taliban Don't Like Neckties

the wanderer wrote 1 month ago: I went to Chicago this weekend to help celebrate my sister’s (and her husband’s) birthdays, and my o … more →

Tags: Taliban, david rohde, How to impress literary people at parties, small wars journal, abu muqawama, Baghdad Bureau, Danger Room, Interesting Times, Are neckties a secret symbol of being a Christian

Bridestones

darksatanicmills wrote 1 month ago: ‘A BLACK EXCLAMATION MARK’ As some of you might know I’ve recently moved from Lond … more →

Tags: Poetry, Books, Stone Circles, Adelle Stripe, Mytholmroyd, hebden bridge, Bridestones, Brimham Rocks, remains of elmet

in which Ms Baroque communes with nature, and Patrick Kurp steals her favourite joke2 comments

msbaroque wrote 1 month ago: You know: the one where the Buddhist goes up to the hotdog stand, and the guy says, “What can … more →

Tags: the Line on Beauty, middle classes, Mysticism, Nature, outdoors, Pastoral

The truth and Brasília, 2: Torsos of Steel4 comments

john wrote 1 month ago: The Dream From 1956 to 1960, Brazilian architects, engineers and peasant laborers called candangos b … more →

Tags: Art, Beauty, existentialism, Failure, Ideas!, Order, Architecture, Brasilia, Brazil

Theories of Archaeology conference

amycutler wrote 1 month ago: upcoming paper,  ‘ ‘The landscape is riddled with failed promises / and premature return … more →

Tags: Conference papers, twentieth century poetry, Poetry, place, Peter Riley, topography, british countryside, ruins, archaeology

The State of Poetry1 comment

Meryl Pugh wrote 1 month ago: So, sorry about the absence.  I was at the seaside.  No, really, I was. I’ll post a picture so … more →

Tags: Poetry, writing, Events, Don Paterson, Forward Prize, National Poetry Day, Agenda, George Barker, Carol Rumens

from Ted Hughes' Gaudete (1977)

Paul wrote 2 months ago: [From The Epilogue Poems] A doctor extracted From my blood its tusk Excavated The mountain-root from … more →

Tags: extracts

sylvia plath: her life in photographs1 comment

patrishka wrote 2 months ago: Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become a … more →

Tags: Books, Friends, Life, People, photos, Poetry, Random, Reflections, Birth Certificate


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