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Poets

Richard Caddel: night, music and the clear edge of English poetry

Richard Caddel: a profile of night, music, sound, landscape, and the clear-edged lyric practice associated with the British Poetry Revival.

Poets

Norma Cole and the poetics of speech, sound, and memory

Norma Cole: a profile of speech, sound, memory, and a poetics shaped by linguistic movement and close attention to voice.

Classical & Modern Poets
Classic Poetry / Poets

Classical & Modern Poets: A Comparative Exploration

A brief perusal through history reveals the richness and dynamism inherent in poetry, an art form that reflects the complex beauty of human emotions, experiences, …

Poets

Contemporary Poets: Modern Voices You Should Read

Poetry has always given language to what feels unsayable: the deepest emotions, the strangeness of being alive, the pressure of history, the mystery of the …

Poets

Brane Mozetič: queer Slovenian poetry, violence and tenderness

Slovenian poet, editor and translator Brane Mozetič writes some of the most openly queer, haunted and intimate poetry to emerge from Central Europe after the …

Poets

Elaine Equi: contemporary American miniatures

Elaine Equi: a profile of compressed, witty contemporary American poems built from miniature scenes, quick turns, and everyday language.

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