A Poetry Daily Prose Feature:

"Hyperbaton, in Greek, means "overstepping," and in classical rhetoric it refers to an inversion or dislocation of normal word order. ... Hyperbaton is one gesture among many that poets might use to produce an effect of strangeness, formality, and literariness. It has particular force when it appears in a poem whose general method tends toward norms of natural speech. Instead of illustrating hyperbaton in a poet of stylized eccentricity, like Gerard Manley Hopkins, I'd like to consider two poets who usually respect what Frost would recognize as sentence sounds."—Rosanna Warren, Stepping Out and Stepping Over: The Figure of Hyperbaton

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Rowan Williams, Liz Berry, Vona Groarke:
New collections reviewed by Paul Batchelor. (New Statesman)

"Second Acts: A Second Look at Second Books of Poetry"
Lisa Russ Spaar continues her series with collections by Galway Kinnell and David Roderick. (Los Angeles Review of Books)

"Is Being a Writer a Job or a Calling?"
Benjamin Moser and Dana Stevens discuss. (The New York Times)

"... an intense and wary reverse image of Whitman..."
S O S: Poems 1961-2013, by Amiri Baraka, reviewed by Dwight Garner. (The New York Times)

"scriptural gravity"
Laura Quinney on W. S. Merwin's Collected Poems 1996-2011 and Collected Poems 1952-1993. (Los Angeles Review of Books)

American Life in Poetry
Ted Kooser presents Don Welch's "Shuffling Out Toward Morning." (American Life in Poetry)

"I wanted the intermingling of language to be purposeful in my collection:"
Daniel A. Olivas talks with Cindy Williams Gutiérrez about her collection, The Small Claim of Bones. (El Paso Times)

"... a milestone and a turning point."
Young Eliot: From St. Louis to The Waste Land, by Robert Crawford, reviewed by Robert McCrum. (The Guardian)

The Guardian poem of the week:
Carol Rumens introduces Arundhathi Subramaniam's "Where the Script Ends." (The Guardian)

"... a blend of Roman history, literary criticism and historical fiction"
Young Ovid: A Life Recreated, by Diane Middlebrook, reviewed by Kate Harvard. (Washington Free Beacon)

Paul Magee, Judith Beveridge, Tim Thorne:
New collections reviewed by Anthony Lynch. (The Australian)

"As it turns out, the world knows very little about him."
The Poet's Tale: Chaucer And The Year That Made The Canterbury Tales, by Paul Strohm, reviewed by Theresa Munoz. (Herald Scotland)

"Living Gorgeously"
Charles Simic on Mark Strand. (NYR Blog)

"If I described myself as an Ulsterman I’d have thought I was selling a bit of my birthright."
Seamus Heaney, in a late interview with the BBC's Mark Carruthers. (The Irish Times)

John Bayley, 89
An obituary for the Oxford don and literary critic. (The New York Times)
 • The TLS remembers John Bayley. (The Times Literary Supplement)

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.

• Hotel Worthy, Valerie Nieman (Press 53)
• Open 24 Hours, Suzanne Lummis (Lynx House Press)
• Half Out Where, Joseph Aguilar (Caketrain)
• Disposable Epics, Thibault Raoult (Caketrain)
• Wild Domestic, Natania Rosenfeld (Sheep Meadow Press)
• Loose Strife, Quan Barry (University of Pittsburgh Press)
• Immigrant Model, Mihaela Moscaliuc (University of Pittsburgh Press)
• Slag, Leslie Anne Mcilroy (Main Street Rag)
• Shook, Julia Paul (Grayson Books)
• Palimpsest, Maxine Silverman (Dos Madres Press)
• Planetary Nights, Jeanne LeVasseur (Word Poetry)
• The Art of Acquiescence, Joseph A. Chelius (Word Poetry)
• Every State Has Its Own Light, Sandra Storey (Word Poetry)
• Divining the Prime Meridian, Carol Smallwood (Word Poetry)
• Unthrifty Loveliness, Christopher Bursk (Word Poetry)
• Girl Who, Allison Wilkins (CW Books)
• Thirty-One Octets: Incantations and Meditations, Steven Wingate (CW Books)
• Interstate, Greg Weiss (CW Books)
• Mrs. Noah Takes the Helm, Elizabeth Schultz (Turning Point)
• The Gatherer, Judith Bowles (Turning Point)
• Thunderbirds, Christine Penko (Turning Point)
• Always, Julia Lisella (WordTech Editions)
• World of Hard Use, Faye George (WordTech Editions)
• Wanderlust, Dawn Schout (WordTech Editions)
• Justice Freedom Herbs, Margaret Rozga (WordTech Editions)
• Open Season, Neva Herrington (David Robert Books)
• Blood to Fruit, Tayve Neese (David Robert Books)

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