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"Don Share's The Poems of Basil Bunting is... long-awaited on two separate counts: not only because a scholarly, critical, variorum edition of this major modernist poet has long been required, but also because this edition has for many years been imminent, a ghostly vessel forever breasting the horizon. Now it has come alongside... Well done, Faber. Well done, Don Share."—Chris Miller, Lean Words

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"Six More Public Cases"
Anthony Madrid continues his series of "quasi-kōans" on the theme "What is poetry for?" (Paris Review Daily)

"The purpose of poetry is to deal with unprecedented experience."
Kaveh Akbar interviews Vijay Seshadri. (Divedapper)

"... an elderwoman's aging"
Dwight Garner on Odes by Sharon Olds. (The New York Times)

David Budbill, 76
An obituary for the Vermont poet. (Barre Montpelier Times Argus)

The Guardian poem of the week:
Carol Rumens introduces Leonardo Sciascia's "Hic et Nunc," translated by Angela Leighton. (The Guardian)

American Life in Poetry:
Ted Kooser presents Barbara Crooker's "Grief." (American Life in Poetry)

"Snap among the Witherlings"
The Whole Harmonium: The Life of Wallace Stevens, by Paul Mariani, reviewed by Michael Hofmann. (London Review of Books)

"Robert Frost at the height:"
The Letters of Robert Frost, Volume 2: 1920-1928, edited by Donald Sheehy, Mark Richardson, Robert Bernard Hass, and Henry Atmore, reviewed by Glenn C. Altschuler. (The Philadelphia Inquirer)

Ben Lerner, Marie Ponsot:
Craig Morgan Teicher reviews The Hatred of Poetry and Collected Poems. (Los Angeles Times)

"No 'peasant poet' but a Monaghan modernist:"
Jaki McCarrick on Patrick Kavanagh. (The Irish Times)

"A Poet Undone"
John Palattella reviews Ben Lerner's The Hatred of Poetry. (The Nation)

MacArthur fellows named:
Poet Claudia Rankine is among the 2016 fellows honored with grants of $625,000 for exceptional "originality, insight and potential." (The New York Times)

"There is stuff here worth learning by heart."
Nicholas Lezard on Don Paterson's 40 Sonnets. (The Guardian)

Forward Prize:
Poetry winners announced. (BBC News)

TLS poem of the week:
Hilary Davies introduces R. S. Thomas's "Somersby Brook." (The Times Literary Supplement)

Cave Canem to receive honorary National Book Award:
The Literarian Award, given for contributions to the American literary community, recognizes the poetry center's nurturing and championing of African-American poets. (The Washington Post)

"The movements of memory and loss:"
Jeff Gordiner reviews new books by W. S. Merwin and Adam Fitzgerald. (The New York Times)

Recently Arrived Titles
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• Garden Time, W. S. Merwin (Copper Canyon Press)
• Poem's Poems and Other Poems, Tim Hunt (CW Books)
• The Year There Were No Apples, James A. LaFond-Lewis (CW Books)
• Foot Faults: Tennis Poems, Roger Sedarat (WordTech Editions)
• Delusion of Grandeur, Carol Hebald (Turning Point)
• Bali Poems, Douglas Cole (Turning Point)
• The Dead Spirits at the Piano, Carol Jennings (Cherry Grove Collections)
• Flashcuts Out of Chaos, Charles W. Brice (WordTech Editions)
• Ergon, George H.S. Singer (WordTech Editions)
• Woman in Transition, Tanque R. Jones (Word Poetry)
• Muses, David Hathwell (David Robert Books)
• The Language of Little Girls, Kate Falvey (David Robert Books)
• Inspired Georgia, Judson Mitcham, Michael David Murphy, Karen L. Paty, ed.s (University of Georgia Press)
• Companions, Analogies, Brian Swann (Sheep Meadow Press)
• Archeophonics, Peter Gizzi (Wesleyan University Press)
• Uniform, Lisa Stice (Aldrich Press)
• Blue Horses (new in paperback), Mary Oliver (Penguin Books)
• The Noise of the Rain, Sarah Plimpton (Sheep Meadow Press)
• Dreamcrashers, Susan Terris (Susan Terris)
• Selected Later Poems (new in paperback), C. K. Williams (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• Two Worlds Exist, Yehoshua November (Orison Books)
• Complayntes for Dr. Neuro, John Matthias (Shearsman Books)
• The Body Distances (A Hundred Blackbirds Rising), Mark Wagenaar (University of Massachusetts Press)

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