Showing posts with label POETRY. Show all posts
Showing posts with label POETRY. Show all posts
27 Oct 2012
NATIONAL POETRY DAY, OCTOBER, 5.
The Scottish Poetry Library produces a set of poem postcards for the National Poetry Day. You can read the poems featured on this year's cards and leave a comment. Worth visiting.
ERNEST DOWSON
The late nineteenth-century poet Ernest Dowson, led a tragic life. When I'm in your shoes, surfing the net in search of emotion, I run after links like this video: Richard Burton reading Dowson's poem 'Non solum qualiseram bonae sub regno Cynarae'
THE CRUELLEST MONTH
The cruellest month begins with A, right; but as winter crawls in, nostalgia seems to settle in for the good old days when I wouldn't know certain details about T.S. Eliot. Worth checking out at Letras Libres, Dec. 2011. Great José Emilio Pacheco focuses on treason, while recieved opinion insists that there is not such thing as treason. Hmm...
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