A Poetry Daily Prose Feature:
"I have never been more aware of different generations of living British poets. First, there are the brilliant and passionate young, whose excellence may be amongst the few reasons for hope in difficult times. There seem to me to be far fewer middle-aged poets: almost a missing generation. Then comes a great galaxy, (including the Poet Laureate), born shortly after the Second World War, whose average age I would guess to be close to my own (sixty). But the most interesting generation may be far older. The ages of the poets in this review range from eighty-five to ninety-two. I feel justified in mentioning this, because the poets' own work is rich with references to time."
—Alison Brackenbury, Hungry Generations
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Ned O'Gorman, 84
An obituary for the poet who founded an innovative school in Harlem. (The New York Times)
"Grieving, coping, and beginning anew:"
The Widows’ Handbook: Poetic Reflections on Grief and Survival, edited by Jacqueline Lapidus and Lise Menn, reviewed by Bella English. (The Boston Globe)
Seamus Heaney: The Music of What Happens:
An exhibition at Emory University "captures beautifully... the sheer liveliness of Heaney's long career. (The Irish Times)
"The Expression of Not-Knowing"
Robyn Creswell interviews Kevin Prufer. (Paris Review Daily)
"A fan’s biography:"
Wilfred Owen, by Guy Cuthbertson, reviewed by Jason Cowley. (Financial Times)
"Once he started experimenting, Cummings never stopped."
E.E. Cummings: A Life, by Susan Cheever, reviewed by Philip Marchand. (Afterword)
"A creative force we... had to acknowledge as central:"
John Ridland remembers Barry Spacks. (Santa Barbara Independent)
"Mother tongue:"
New collections by Scottish poets Jen Hadfield and John Burnside reviewed by Matthew Sperling. (New Statesman)
"'The Poetry of Sex' Isn't Actually About Sex"
Germaine Greer on The Poetry of Sex, edited by Sophie Hannah. (The New Republic)
"first catch, then canon, fugal; all one breath."
John Burnside's All One Breath reviewed by Sarah Crown. (The Guardian)
TLS poem of the week:
Andrew McCulloch introduces Clive James's "The Great Wrasse." (The Times Literary Supplement)
"Tumbling at the Edge of Disaster"
Michael Klein on Noelle Kocot's Soul in Space. (Los Angeles Review of Books)
American Life in Poetry:
Ted Kooser presents Chelsea Rathburn's "After Filing for Divorce." (American Life in Poetry)
"Poetry Profiles: Black Ocean"
Dana Jennings talks with poetry editor Carrie Olivia Adams. (Arts Beat)
Yale Series of Younger Poets:
Ansel Elkins has been selected as the winner of the 2014 Yale Younger Poets Prize. (Los Angeles Times)
The Guardian poem of the week:
Carol Rumens introduces Vladislav Khodasevich's "Look for Me." (The Guardian)
"The Secret Auden"
Secret, reports Edward Mendelson, "because he would have been ashamed to have been praised for it." (The New York Review of Books)
Recently Arrived Titles
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- Rhyme's Challenge: Hip Hop, Poetry, and Contemporary Rhyming Culture, David Caplan (Oxford University Press)
- The Sleeve Waves, Angela Sorby (University of Wisconsin Press)
- Otherwise Unseeable, Betsy Sholl (University of Wisconsin Press)
- Second Line Home: New Orleans Poems, Mona Lisa Saloy (Truman State University Press)
- Relics of Lust: New and Selected Poems, Lynne Savitt (NYQ Books)
- How a Mirage Works, Beverly Burch (Sixteen Rivers Press)
- Master of Leaves, Murray Silverstein (Sixteen Rivers Press)
- What Glorious Possibilities, Jim Zola (Aldrich Press)
- To the Bramble and the Briar, Steve Scafidi (University of Arkansas Press)
- Ghost Gear, Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum (University of Arkansas Press)
- Day of the Border Guards, Katherine E. Young (University of Arkansas Press)
- David Jones in the Great War, Thomas Dilworth (Enitharmon Press)
- Balefire, Shann Ray (Lost Horse Press)
- Afternoon Masala, Vandana Khanna (University of Arkansas Press)
- Another Reason, Carl Dennis (Penguin Books)
- The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon, Willie Perdomo (Penguin Books)
- Complicity, Adam Sol (McClelland & Stewart)
- Elise Cowen: Poems and Fragments, Elise Cowen, ed. Tony Triglio (Ahsahta Press)
- Mexican Jenny, Barbara Brinson Curiel (Anhinga Press)
- Somewhere Near Defiance, Jeff Gundy (Anhinga Press)
- Seam, Tarfia Faizullah (Southern Illinois University Press)
- One Hundred White Pelicans, Robin Chapman (Tebot Bach)
- The Unleashable Dog, Charles Rafferty (Steel Toe Books)
- Phrasebook for the Pleiades, Lorraine Doran (Cider Press Review)
- Rough Beast, Tim Peeler (FutureCycle Press)
- Bed of Coals, Joseph Hutchison (FutureCycle Press)
- Redemption, Lee Passarella (FutureCycle Press)
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