I found this book which I had left unfinished. And started re-reading: … for a poem to move us it must bring us near our own threshold. We must feel genuinely threatened or destabilized by the poem’s vision of disordering, even as we are simultaneously reassured and convinced by its orderings Gregory Orr: Poetry as Survival…
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approaching death sideways
I’ve just listened to Alice Oswald reading and discussing the nursery rhyme, There Was a Man of Double Deed – I think you should too: Guardian Books poetry podcast: Alice Oswald reads There Was a Man of Double Deed There was a man of double deed There was a man of double deed Who sowed his…
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