Tag: poetry
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Reece Beckett dives into the world of Kae Tempest’s newest album.
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*TW: Mental health, suicide* Anne Sexton’s work in poetry generally seems to have been left behind by many. This may speak to a general preference within popular poetry to focus more so on stories of redemption, whilst Sexton’s usually bleak outlook – and her bleaker personal life, made public – take her work away from…
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Poetry often has the reputation of pretentious writers twiddling a quill in their study, brewing up farfetched witticisms and flaunting worryingly expansive knowledge of flowers and birds on a laboriously lengthy verse. While I think this image of poets has shifted over the decades, we sometimes need a reminder of the wonders that down-to-earth, lighthearted…
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University of Southampton student, Callum Holgate, is a third-year English student publishing his first book of poetry. Boys will be Boys, is a compendium of poems written over the years; some of them previously appearing on Callum’s Instagram or Twitter, as well as including more intimate poems and ones written specifically for the book. As Boys…
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Kubla Khan – Samuel Taylor Coleridge Kubla Khan is a transcription of a dream-vision Samuel Taylor Coleridge experienced whilst under the influence of opium, the entire poem was inspired by a travel book, Purchas His Pilgrimage. Coleridge began to focus on the line “at Zanadu Kubla Khan built a pleasure palace”, this line opened Coleridge’s…
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Social Media poetry, poetry or a trend? Callum Holgate creates the term ‘Fast Food Poetry’ and the lack of meaning it provides.
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It’s here. Violet Bent Backwards Over The Grass is here in hardback, audiobook, vinyl and cassette glory.
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Elizabeth Sorrell digs deep into work by Ezra Pound and F.S Flint.
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We asked some of our writers at The Edge their favourite poets & spoken word artists and ended up with quite the eclectic bunch.
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Poetry is in the streets and now, thanks to The 1975, on the radio.
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On a day of reflection, literature can help us to remember. Amber-Louise gives her top poetry picks for the centenary.
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George the Poet releases a powerful video tackling hate crime on the anniversary of Jo Cox’s murder.
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Eduard Gafton interviews the team behind Neruda: director Pablo Larraín and Golden Globe award winner Gael García Bernal.
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Eduard Gafton delves deep into the turbulent world of 1948 Chile with this review of Neruda.