A Poetry Daily Prose Feature:
"I've never had the pleasure of fondling a trout. Like most of us, I've encountered that noble fish only when picking at its rosy flesh in a truite meunière with the tines of my fork, and even then gingerly. But when I read Hopkins' line 'for rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim,' I feel for a moment as though my fingers have grazed the thing itself. I delight in this illusion partly because words, for once, seem to have acquired the quick slippery density of a living creature; to have assumed heft and texture; to have become equivalent to the object of which they are normally only the sign. Partly too, I admire it for the impossibility of the endeavor... As it happens, Hopkins' line was one that Elizabeth Bishop particularly admired..."
—Eric Ormsby, Ancient Chills
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National Book Awards announced:
Keith Waldrop honored with poetry prize for Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy. (The New York Times)
• Keith Waldrop: still avant garde after all these years. (The Providence Journal)
The Habit of Art
Mark Lawson talks with Alan Bennett, whose new play, concerning an imagined meeting between W.H. Auden and Benjamin Britten, has opened at The National Theatre. (Audio from Front Row and BBC Radio 4.)
"Every house an ark..."
Sean Rocks talks with Colm Keegan about Mary O'Donnell's The Ark Builders. (Audio from Arena and RTÉ Radio 1)
"If ever two were one, then surely we."
Peggy Reynolds talks with guests about the life of Anne Bradstreet and her poem, "To My Dear and Loving Husband." (Audio from Adventures in Poetry and BBC Radio 4)
TLS Poem of the Week:
Michael Caines introduces a poem by Charles Boyle. (Times Literary Supplement)
"Tomorrow you'll set all this chaos right. /
But..."
Joanna Rawson's Unrest reviewed by Marinda Bland. (Twin Cities Daily Planet)
American Life in Poetry:
Ted Kooser introduces a poem by Marie Sheppard Williams. (American Life in Poetry)
The former Poet Laureate, Andrew Motion, will chair Man Booker Prize:
"I greatly look forward to a year of reading voraciously." (BBC)
Sherman Alexie chats:
The poet and author visited The Book Bench to discuss his new book, War Dances, and more. (The New Yorker)
Où sont les poètes d'antan?
Peter Thompson finds poetry resurrected from obscurity in Dublin's Other Poetry and Ulster's Other Poetry, edited by John Wyse-Jackson and Hector McDonnell, inclduing Zozimus, 19th centuryt Dublin street-poet and balladeer. (The Irish Times)
Guardian Poem of the Week:
Carol Rumens introduces a poem by Douglas Skrief. (The Guardian)
Like a bell:
Lisa Williams's Woman Reading to the Sea reviewed by Candace Chaney. (LexGo.com)
On the home-front:
Brad Leithauser's novel, The Art Student's War, reviewed by Floyd Skloot. (The Boston Globe)
"Bolo ties dominate:"
Barbara Carey surveys the finalists for the Governor General's Award for Poetry in English. (Toronto Star)
"A personified London and a humanized Thames:"
Peter Ackroyd's The Canterbury Tales: A Retelling reviewed by Harold Bloom. (The New York Times)
"A kind of farewell to Keats:"
Thinking about Jane Campion's new movie, Bright Star, David Biespiel introduces "To Autumn." (The Oregonian)
The Poetry Society at 100:
Blake Morrison looks into A Century of Poetry Review, edited by Fiona Sampson. (The Guardian)
Google offers concessions in a revised book digitization settlement:
Offer comes after objections to deal with authors and publisher by regulators and others. (The Washington Post)
Recently Arrived Titles
These just in... Highlighted titles may be purchased from Poetry Daily / Amazon.com. A complete
list of all books and journals recently received at Poetry Daily is also available.
- Save the Last Dance, Gerald Stern (W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.)
- Indigo, Ron Koertge (Red Hen Press)
- Wingbeats After Dark, Ray Clark Dickson (Red Hen Press)
- The Whole Island: Six Decades of Cuban Poetry, Mark Weiss, ed. (University of California Press)
- Museum Crows, Ron Houchin (Salmon Poetry)
- The Strange House Testifies, Ruth Irupé Sanabria (Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe)
- Dialect of a Skirt, Erica Miriam Fabri (Hanging Loose Press)
- Watching Mother Disappear & Other Poems, Toni Mergentime Levi (Mayapple Press)
- Blessings and Curses, Anne Whitehouse (Poetic Matrix Press)
- View from the Middle of the Road IV, Lucinda Clark, ed. (P.R.A. Publishing)
- Black Stone, Michael Simms (Monkey Sea Editions)
- Hosannas of an Ordinary Life, Joris John Heise (AuthorHouse)
- Storage Space: A Collection of Contemporary Poetry, Darren A. Stein (Xlibris)
Recent Anthologies, etc.
- Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry, Stephen Burt (Graywolf Press)
- Can Poetry Save the Earth? A Field Guide to Nature Poems, John Felstiner
- Don’t Leave Hungry: Fifty Years of Southern Poetry Review, ed. James Smith (University of Arkansas Press)
- Essential Pleasures: A New Anthology of Poems to Read Aloud, ed. Robert Pinsky (W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.)
- Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney, Dennis O'Driscoll (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
- The Best American Poetry 2008, ed. Charles Wright and David Lehman (Scribner)
- Best Thought, Worst Thought: On Art, Sex, Work and Death, Don Paterson (Graywolf Press)
- 100 Essential Modern Poems by Women, ed. Joseph Parisi and Kathleen Welton (Ivan R. Dee, Publisher)
- Quote Poet Unquote: Contemporary Quotations on Poets and Poetry, ed. Dennis O'Driscoll (Copper Canyon Press)
- The Making of a Sonnet: A Norton Anthology, ed. Edward Hirsch and Eavan Boland (W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.)
- The Art of the Poetic Line, James Longenbach (Graywolf Press)
- The Art of Attention: A Poet's Eye, Donald Revell (Graywolf Press)
Past Features:
Original
articles, interviews, selections from special collections and journal issues, and more are available in the Archives.
