News – Poetry Daily

Poetry Daily readers have access to news about poetry from important literary news sources in English across the world.

Appreciation: "His poetry is often forgotten or overshadowed in the Joycean canon by the later achievements of the prose works. His first published book, however, was the 1907 collection of poems, Chamber Music." (The Irish Times)
#pdnews
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/a-portrait-of-the-artist-as-poet-an-irishman-s-diary-on-james-joyce-1.4466603

Review: "UNDERWORLD LIT is a book-length poem with a more than passing resemblance to the campus novel, and it may well rank as one of the masterpieces."
(Hong Kong Review of Books)
#pdnews
https://hkrbooks.com/2020/12/01/underworld-lit/

Review: "Earlier in the pandemic, I took up the friendly and pleasurable challenge of reading in tandem two recently published translations of poems by the Italian poet Giovanni Pascoli..." (LA Review of Books)
#pdnews
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/second-acts-two-translations-of-giovanni-pascoli/

Column: "As you reread the poem, the more echoes and echoes of echoes become audible. The narrow sparseness of the structure seems mimetic, and the reader finds themselves climbing the stairs of the empty flat...."
(The Guardian)
#pdnews
https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2021/jan/18/poem-of-the-week-old-flat-abandoned-by-rory-waterman

Report: "When Amanda Gorman, a 22-year-old poet from Los Angeles, took to the stage on Wednesday, it was immediately clear why the new president had chosen her as his inaugural poet."
(NPR)
#pdnews
https://www.npr.org/sections/inauguration-day-live-updates/2021/01/20/958743170/poet-amanda-gorman-reads-the-hill-we-climb

Review: "No amount of etymological knowledge or background research, however, will make late Celan lucid or possible to master: the poems’ darkness, their obscurity of utterance is part of their very nature." (Hyperallergic)
#pdnews
https://hyperallergic.com/614769/paul-celan-poems-in-the-language-of-death/

Interview: "I recommended a book to a friend recently and he said, is it sad? Because I don’t know if I want to read a sad book right now. And I said, of course it’s sad. It’s a book." —Mark Wunderlich
(Lit Hub)
#pdnews
https://lithub.com/mark-wunderlich-on-the-resurrecting-powers-of-poetry/

Announcement: Poetry Daily now has a YouTube channel!

If you were unable to attend our recent What Translation Sparks conversations, you can watch recordings of them there.

We will be adding content in the near future, so be sure to subscribe!
#pdnews
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0Lm24vF8bWda2e2XiWBVTg

Discovery: "Having difficulty interpreting Williams’ ornamental cursive writing, Ruan struggled in her transcription. She searched for the published poem online, but was surprised to discover one didn’t exist."
(The Emory Wheel)
#pdnews
https://emorywheel.com/oxford-student-discovers-unpublished-william-carlos-williams-manuscript/

Column: "Leaving aside the questions raised by early attempts at marketing Dickinson as a children’s writer, it seems certain that her own youthful reading in the genre remained a significant...element in her mature technique." (The Guardian)
#pdnews
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/jan/11/poem-of-the-week-under-the-light-yet-under-by-emily-dickinson

Follow Poetry Daily on Twitter

And keep abreast of the headlines on poems, poets, publishers, and more.

Follow @Poetry_Daily

HOT OFF THE PRESSES

Wondering what new books have just been published? We seriously consider every book we receive, and we feature poems from many of the best and most interesting collections among them, but it would be impossible to feature every fine book. Browse every book we’ve received in the past six months here—plus the list of journals and magazines we read regularly.