POETRY
June 2014
Our greatest living poet is a reminder to those in public life of the energy of intelligence created by the writing and criticism of poetry
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June 2014
Rupert Brooke deserves to be taken seriously
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December 2013
A new expanded edition of E.E. Cummings's Collected Poems demonstrates that, despites his brief sojourns in the avant-garde, the poet always found his way to a profound simplicity
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December 2013
Craig Raine's collected essays, More Dynamite, is a collection that blows holes in fellow poets' work, and ends leaving the poetry landscape very battered and bleak
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