The Best British Poetry 2011 includes a poem called ‘Hennecker’s Ditch’ by Katharine Kilalea. It is quoted in full on Carcanet’s New Poetries blog — everyone should read it — , followed by a lengthy discussion by Don Share, which is in turn taken up by Rob Mackenzie. The discussion is fascinating, as Share follows his investigations into the meaning of this mysterious poem, mostly through Google. It’s probably one of the most interesting things to ripple across the poetry channels for a while. Here are my thoughts.
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Why Critics Praise Bad Poetry
‘Metafiddlesticks!’: Eliot’s Donne and the Possibilities of the Neo-Metaphysical Speaker, 1917-1935
The following is an essay on T.S. Eliot, Herbert Read & William Empson that I wrote for my degree. It wasn’t doing anything on my hard disk, so it may as well be published to the world. It is rather long. Thanks are due to Dr Michael Whitworth.
Nick Laird, Daniel Dennett & Online Poetry
Nick Laird has written a very interesting article on poetry online (through the lens of poetry apps for the iPad) for The Guardian today. Most of it is occupied in showing that almost all of the poetry on the internet is very bad, but then he comes to a broader point:
Wanda Coleman On Line Breaks: In Response
When someone appears to be saying something very silly or obviously incorrect it is mostly only because you have misunderstood them.