Alice Oswald Is New Oxford Professor of Poetry
"Celebrated for their exploration of nature and myth, Oswald’s nine books of poetry have already brought her prizes including the TS Eliot, Griffin and Costa poetry awards. The former poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy has hailed her as 'the best UK poet now writing, bar none,' while Jeanette Winterson has called her Ted Hughes’s 'rightful heir,' a poet not 'of footpaths and theme parks, but the open space and untamed life that waits for us to find it again.'"
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What Sparks Poetry:
Eric Pankey on W. S. Merwin's
"When You Go Away"
"The premise of 'When You Go Away,' is familiar: when the lover is separated from the beloved, the order of the world changes. Given the limits of this conventional subject, how did Merwin make a thing both faithful to its convention and new? I found an answer to my question in the complexity of the poem’s final lines: 'my words are the garment of what I shall never be / Like the tucked sleeve of a one-armed boy.'" |
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