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TLS poem of the week:
Andrew McCulloch introduces Iain Crichton Smith's "The Drowned." (The Times Literary Supplement)
"Greek Poetry in the Shadow of Austerity"
David Wallace on the anthology, Austerity Measures: The New Greek Poetry, edited by Karen Van Dyck. (The New Yorker)
"Longtime editor of venerable Yale Review stepping down"
J. D. McClatchy steps down after 27 years. (New York Daily News)
A voyage around Joyce, Murdoch, Yeats and Heaney:
Mark Patrick Hederman's The Opal and The Pearl reviewed by Anne Harris. (The Irish Times)
The Guardian poem of the week:
Carol Rumens introduces Francis Thompson's "In No Strange Land." (The Guardian)
American Life in Poetry:
Ted Kooser presents P. Ivan Young's "Visiting the Neighborhood." (American Life in Poetry)
"Liu Xiaobo, Chinese Nobel Laureate, Leaves Prison for Cancer Care"
The Chinese dissident received the Nobel Peace Prize for his writings promoting democracy. (The New York Times)
Poetry Sunday:
Rebecca Foust introduces Brenda Hillman's "En Route to Bolinas, a Rose." (Women's Voices for Change)
State Lines:
David Roderick introduces "History," by Noah Blaustein. (San Francisco Chronicle)
"I wasn't doing it just to be shocking."
Sarah Kanowski profiles Sharon Olds. (ABC Online)
"from horses to porn stars"
Martin Saunders reviews Joseph Millar's Kingdom. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
"Poetry is for transferring ... emotional knowledge ..."
Azaria Podplesky talks with Christopher Howell about his latest book Love's Last Number. (The Spokesman-Review)
"Four New Collections of Omnivorous Literary Criticism"
New books by Jonathan Lethem, edited by Christopher Boucher; Adam Kirsch; Tom McCarthy; and August Kleinzahler, reviewed by Heather Scott Partington. (The New York Times)
"The Afterlife"
Matthew Zapruder introduces a poem by James Tate. (The New York Times Magazine)
"Arohanui:"
Shaun Miller interviews James Galvin. (Los Angeles Review of Books)
"The pain is real. And I get something from it.”
Kaveh Akbar interviews Nick Flynn. (Divedapper)
"How A. E. Housman Invented Englishness"
Charles McGrath reviews Peter Parker's Housman Country: Into the Heart of England, "partly a brisk, sensible biography of Housman and partly a study in poetic reputation." (The New Yorker)
"What the poet saw: the extraordinary life of Czesław Miłosz"
Miłosz: a Biography, by
Andrzej Franaszek, translated by Aleksandra Parker and Michael Parker, reviewed by David Herman. (New Statesman)
"Have we been taught poetry all wrong?"
Elizabeth Flock talks with Matthew Zapruder about his forthcoming book, Why Poetry? (PBS NewsHour)
"Ghazal Cosmopolitan"
Shadab Zeest Hashmi explores cosmopolitanism at the root of the ghazal form. (World Literature Today)
"Mad Russia Hurt Me into Poetry"
Cynthia Haven interviews Maria Stepanova. (Los Angeles Review of Books)
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.
- Double Portrait, Brittany Perham (W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.)
- Angel Hill, Michael Longley (Wake Forest University Press)
- Belle Turnbull: On the Life & Work of an American Master, David J. Rothman and Jeffrey R. Villines, eds. (Pleiades Press and Gulf Coast - The Unsung Masters Series)
- The Pilgrims of Tombelaine , Glenn Shea (Salmon Poetry)
- Allow the Stars to Catch Me When I Rise, Adam Hughes (Salmon Poetry)
- Butterflies of a Bad Summer, Karl Parkinson (Salmon Poetry)
- Hoops of Holiness, Maurice Harmon (Salmon Poetry)
- Santiago, Cheryl Follon (Bloodaxe Books / Dufour Editions, Inc.)
- Missing Persons, Hilary S. Jacqmin (The Waywiser Press)
- The Ten Winners of the 2017 Whiting Awards, Introduction by Jo Ann Beard (Whiting Foundation)
- Paterson Light and Shadow, Poems by Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Photographs by Mark Hillringhouse (Serving House Books)
Past Features:
Original
articles, interviews, selections from special collections and journal issues, and more are available in the Archives.
