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Poem of the week: Philosophy by Amy Levy

Amy Levy was the first Jewish woman to attend Newnham College, Cambridge. Still more impressively, she published her first collection of poems, Xantippe and Other Verse, at the age of 20 (in 1881). She went on to produce three novels, two [...]

Posted On : Jan, 18 2012 | Comments : 0

Poem of the week: They Are All Gone into the World of Light!...

Henry Vaughan, born in Breconshire in 1621, began his literary career as a bright young secular poet of the Tribe of Ben. And then, after two unremarkable collections, a transformation occurred. His next book, Silex Scintillans, reveals a [...]

Posted On : Jan, 12 2012 | Comments : 0

Poem of the week - The God of Love by George MacBeth

George MacBeth, who died prematurely of motor neurone disease in 1992, was a prolific poet, novelist, children's writer, anthologist and ambassador for poetry. Working-class and Oxford-educated, shaped by postwar and anti-Movement in [...]

Posted On : Jun, 08 2010 | Comments : 0

Poem of the week - The God of Love by George MacBeth

George MacBeth, who died prematurely of motor neurone disease in 1992, was a prolific poet, novelist, children's writer, anthologist and ambassador for poetry. Working-class and Oxford-educated, shaped by postwar and anti-Movement in [...]

Posted On : Jun, 08 2010 | Comments : 0

Poem of the week Eros Turannos by Edwin Arlington Robinson

Poet and critic Louise Bogan described Edwin Arlington Robinson's 1897 collection, The Children of the Night, as "one of the hinges upon which American poetry was able to turn from the sentimentality of the 90s toward modern ver [...]

Posted On : May, 04 2010 | Comments : 0

Poem of the week - Donal Og by Lady Augusta Gregory

Rarely does a translation so stunningly refresh the language it enters as this week's poem, "Donal Og" ("Young Donal") by Lady Augusta Gregory. It owes its power to a variety of attributes. One is its lyric econom [...]

Posted On : Apr, 20 2010 | Comments : 1

Poem of the week - Twilight by Samuel Menashe

Samuel Menashe was born in New York in 1925. His parents were Russian-Jewish immigrants, and his first language was Yiddish. "Scribe out of work/ At a loss for words/ Not his to begin with" he declares wryly in the opening [...]

Posted On : Feb, 15 2010 | Comments : 0

Poem of the week - La Gioconda by Michael Field

Leonardo Da Vinci's portrait of La Gioconda, more familiarly known as the Mona Lisa has fascinated many writers, her famously inscrutable half-smile a powerful stimulus for imaginative interpretation, ranging from the lyrical to the licenti [...]

Posted On : Jan, 19 2010 | Comments : 0

Poem of the week - Weeping Woman by Grace Nichols

The surrealist photographer Dora Maar was the subject of many paintings by her lover, Pablo Picasso. Tate Modern's Weeping Woman is one of an eponymous series of jagged, vibrant, howlingly anguished portraits. It was during a residency a [...]

Posted On : Dec, 17 2009 | Comments : 0