"Seifu Metaferia is an Ethiopan literary giant in the shape of a small elderly poet, professor and researcher of oral/children’s poetry. In his house in Addis Ababa, he read me some poems, including A World...: not a difficult poem to translate, no tricky constructions or ambiguous word plays, Seifu simply picks his target and shoots from the hip! Written many years ago, the poem’s exposition of how power forces and cajoles feels completely relevant today."
Chris Beckett on "A World Created by the Powerful" |
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The Enigma of Stevie Smith
"The self-mocking character study 'Mrs. Arbuthnot,' first published in the TLS in 1960 and then in The Best Beast (1969), is characteristic of Smith’s poems in its questioning of the impulse to write at all, and of its delight in wrong-footing the reader."
via THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Amaud Jamaul Johnson on “Possum Dead”
"I’m not that old, but I’ve lived long enough to know that the lion’s share of my life is behind me. I know there are relationships I can’t hold on to, and places I can’t return to. I’m just beginning to see 'real time,' the arc of almost half a century, and how the generational waves, both violent and beautiful, define our species." |
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