"Rare Robert Burns Book Found in a Barber Shop"
"The book, titled Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, is missing its first 50 pages. These were ripped out by the owner of a barber shop in Shrewsbury in Shropshire, who used them to clean his razors....The book, most commonly known as the Kilmarnock Edition, is now on display at Dunfermline Carnegie Library and Galleries in Fife, next to the Abbey Church which Burns visited in 1787."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Layla Benitez-James on Two Poems by Beatriz Miralles de Imperial
"Bea has been described as 'a poet of silence, of everything unsaid which is suggested through language,' and translating these poems opened my eyes to the immense possibilities of brevity, inspiring me to begin a book-length project in small bursts. How Dark My Skin Is Left by Her Shadow taught me the strength of distillation, how intensity rises, and pressure builds when a substance is compressed." |
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