What Sparks Poetry:
Tanya Larkin on Emily Dickinson’s [I started Early—Took my Dog—]
“When I was in high school, I wrote out Emily Dickinson’s “[I started Early—Took my Dog—]” in outsize Goth-y script and taped it to my wall—understanding little of it. I had come across it while doing the dreaded twenty-page research paper for US History, the hallmark assignment of many a college prep school. My teacher was kind. He allowed me to take a patently literary topic and wrench it into a historical one, which is how I found myself leafing through Dickinson’s Collected looking for vaguely feminist poems. This one must have stood out in its forceful expression of utter female power." |
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"The Whole Brilliant Apparatus"
Aingeal Clare reviews the best of recent poetry collections. They include The Caiplie Caves by Karen Solie, The Mother House by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, A Portable Paradise by Roger Robinson; and Still Life by the late Ciaran Carson.
via THE GUARDIAN |
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