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"Solace and Healing:" Poetry Eases Lockdown in Ireland
"Social media hums with quotes, poets read verses over the phone to people in isolation and households hang banners with favourite lines....The taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, channels Seamus Heaney so often in speeches that he is accused of being a super-spreader in a poetry pandemic."
via THE GUARDIAN |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Ana Božičević on Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market”
"I can’t underestimate how much this kind of spelled repetition, the shifting meter and rhyme patterns following their own emotional logic and the music inside the words, influenced the way I write in English—Rossetti’s “irregular measures” that John Ruskin amusingly declared a “calamity of modern poetry.” But they also found a kindred bell in the ear as I simultaneously read the anonymous Croatian poets of the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries, poems of chant and repetition, epic simile and Slavic antithesis." |
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