Jeremy Noel–Tod
To Swell a Progress
On Poetry
By Glyn Maxwell
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Beyond the Lyric: A Map of Contemporary British Poetry
By Fiona Sampson
Poetry is a violently opinionated business. The closest I have come to a civil war was – quite seriously – a conference on versification. Poetry lovers, however, tend to be polite people who express their feelings in convoluted ways. Hence, perhaps, their love of poetry, but also the incoherent quality of much poetry criticism.
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