A Poetry Daily Prose Feature:

"In Rising Late, Derek Mahon’s signature formalism is on full display. And it is a delight. The poet himself seems to take pleasure from his verse forms, which rearrange the structural units of English poetry into combinations new enough to surprise the reader and recognisable enough that their dialogue with tradition is clear. Indeed 'tradition' is too stodgy, too compromised a word to really serve us any longer in the twenty-first century, when our traditions of innovation and avant-gardism are so numerous. Tradition is nothing if not malleable, and Mahon’s tradition is a site of play."—Magdalena Kay, Through to Delight
   

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"Love Elegy with Busboy"
Rita Dove introduces a poem by Nathan McClain. (The New York Times Magazine)

TLS poem of the week:
Alice Wadsworth introduces "On Mr. Cogito’s two legs," by Zbigniew Herbert, translated by M. Czajkowska. (The Times Literary Supplement)

"He believed in the necessary work done by the secret, sleeping self..."
Geoffrey Hilsabeck on Stanley Kunitz and the Fine Arts Work Center. (Paris Review Daily)

Poetry to make you put your phone down
Heather June Gibbons's Her Mouth as Souvenir reviewed by Ingrid Rojas Contreras. (KQED)

"Clear mystery is what we are after."
Cindy King talks with David Bottoms about his latest collection,  Otherworld, Underworld, Prayer Porch, and more. (ArtsATL)

"I didn’t realise how much of a big deal the first woman thing was"
Helen Meany talks with Emily Wilson, the first woman to translate Homer's Odyssey into English. (The Irish Times)

"Ireland’s great social networker and the London migrant’s friend"
On the eve of publication of Oliver Goldsmith's collected letters in a first modern critical edition, co-editor David O'Shaughnessy profiles the 18th-century man of letters. (The Irish Times)

The Guardian poem of the week:
Carol Rumens introduces "Animal Planet," by Ana Blandiana. (The Guardian)

American Life in Poetry:
Ted Kooser presents "My Cousin, Milton," by Terri Kirby Erickson. (American Life in Poetry)

Poetry Sunday:
Rebecca Foust presents "Here, Too " by Jennifer Nelson. (Women's Voices for Change)

"Ghost Ship"
Blank Verse Films presents a reading by Sonia Greenfield. (Blank Verse Films)

"... much more than a poet and friend of the famous."
Renaissance Woman: The Life of Vittoria Colonna, by Ramie Targoff, reviewed by Grace Parazzoli. (Santa Fe New Mexican)

Recently Arrived Titles
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• Distant Mandate, Ange Mlinko (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• Fraying Edge of Sky, Danielle Hanson (Codhill Press)
• English Kills, Monica Wendel (Mayapple Press)
• The Apathy of Clouds, Domenic Scopa (FutureCycle Press)
• Living on Madison Avenue, David Lawrence (FutureCycle Press)

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