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Carol Rumens has been contributing 'Poem of the Week' to the Guardian for more than a dozen years. Do the maths: that's more than 624 blogs! No wonder she has a large and devoted following. She's a poet-reader, not an academic. She is fascinated by the new, but her interest is instructed by the classic poems she has read. They make her ear demanding: when it hears that something, it perks up. She perks up.
'A poem is a small (or large) machine made of words.' Rumens partly agrees with Williams but she develops the conceit, seeing each poem 'as a more flexible instrument, a miniature neo-cortex, that super-connective, super-layered smartest device of the mammalian brain'.
She tries to avoid poems built from kits with instruction manuals. She looks for surprises, and she surprises us.
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- Front Cover
- About the Author
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Dedication
- Half Title
- Introduction
- Howard Altmann . The Lake of Memories
- Peter Didsbury . A Fire Shared
- Karen Mccarthy Woolf . Outside
- Fred d'Aguiar . Boy Soldier
- Ruth Fainlight . The Coloration of Feathers
- Judith Wilson . A Bone Flute
- Denise Riley . Death makes dead metaphor revive
- Zohar Atkins . The Oy of the Poyem
- John Ashbery . Breezeaway
- Elaine Feinstein . April Fools' Day
- Maya Chowdhry . Microbial Museum
- R.F. langley . To a Nightingale
- Jean 'Binta' Breeze . Tweet Tweet
- Tony Conran . Jasper
- Saunders Lewis . Lavernock . translated by Harry Gilonis
- Miriam Nash . The Walking Father Blues
- Nausheen Eusuf . Poem for Professor Frye
- Miiles Burrows . But Those Unheard
- Kamela Das . Someone Else's Song
- Zaffar Kunial . Us
- Ross Cogan . Lapstrake
- Vahni Capildeo . They (may forget (their names (if let out)))
- Syl Cheney-Coker . The Colour of Stones
- Robert Sheppard . Prison Camp Violin, Riga
- Malika Booker . Sin Visits Me
- Ian Gregson . Squaks and Speech
- Siobhan Campbell . Origin of the Mimeo
- Mimi Khalvati . Everywhere you see her.
- Naomi Foyle . Your Summer Arm
- W.S. Graham . How Are the Children Robin
- Jane Yeh . Musk-Ox
- Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke . The Barber Shop translated by Jackie Wilcox and the poet
- Paul Henry . The Black Guitar
- Cliff Forshaw . Loop
- Billy Mills . Tiny Pieces
- Andrew Lambeth . Why the swan
- Philip Fried . Yoga for Leaders and Others
- Robyn Bolam . Moving On
- Marilyn Hacker . A Braid of Garlic
- John Kinsella . Chainsaw
- Peter Balakian . World Trade Center / Mail Runner / '73
- Yves Bonnefoy . The Light, Changed . translated by John Naughton
- Anne Stevenson . The Miracle of the Bees and the Foxgloves
- Maurice Rutherford . The Autumn Outings
- Vladimir Mayakovsky . Ay, But Can Ye? . translated by Edwin Morgan
- Leah Fritz . Going, Going.
- Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin . The Words Collide
- Jee Leong Koh . In His Other House
- Dick Davis . Political Asylum
- Maria Teresa Horta . Poem . translated by Lesley Saunders
- Stanley Moss . Visiting Star
- Frank Ormsby . Fireflies
- Acknowledgements
- Index of Poem Titles
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