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52 Poems from The Guardian 'Poem of the Week'
Published on 28. November 2019
256 pages
978-1-78410-780-2 (ISBN)
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A year of hand-picked poems and commentaries from the Guardian's 'Poem of the Week' blog.
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.
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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Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Carcanet Press Ltd
File size
0,47 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78410-780-2 (9781784107802)
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Person
Carol Rumens was born in Forest Hill, South London, in 1944. She began writing music reviews for the local press when she was sixteen. She has held various literary posts, including the Northern Art Fellowship, and poetry residencies located at Queen's University Belfast, University College Cork, Stockholm University and the Harvard Centre for Hellenic Studies, Nafplio. Rumens has published twenty-four poetry collections, the latest of which is Mind's Eye: Notelets & Dialogues in Tribute to Paul Celan (Broken Sleep Books, 2024). She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and a Professor Emerita in Creative Writing at the University of Bangor, Gwynedd.
Content
- 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
