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Why Isn’t Poetry Ever ‘a Good Read,’ Entertainment Weekly? Books the Magazine Left off Its List of ‘The New Classics’
Isn’t poetry ever “a good read”? Entertainment Weekly has published a list of “The New Classics: The 100 Best Reads From 1983 to 2008” www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20207076_20207387_20207349,00.… more »
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The House by the Railroad
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highwaycyclinggroup wrote 1 week ago: The day after John and I pootled/sprinted our way to a cup of tea I rode to work in Salisbury and ba … more »
Blake Butler vs Philip Larkin in a Death Match
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blogsloth wrote 2 weeks ago: Well, although a finalist, I did not win the Tarrt Fiction Award for my short story collection. This … more »
twenty-four: Philip Larkin, The Whitsun Weddings
kayvee wrote 3 weeks ago: I’ve always been slightly wary of Philip Larkin. He’s recently been voted the UK’s … more »
Home again, home again, jiggity-jig.
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wheatdear wrote 1 month ago: The best fireworks display I ever done seen was from the window of an airplane in 2005. I was flyi … more »
Poets and Wedding Planning
Stephen Rowe wrote 1 month ago: As I may or may not have mentioned in an earlier entry, I’m getting married August 1st (Yay me … more »
Poem du jour
louise wrote 1 month ago: [Via a comment on Wendi Aarons' blog] This Be The Verse by Philip Larkin They fuck you up, your mum … more »
Why Isn’t Poetry Ever ‘a Good Read,’ Entertainment Weekly? Books the Magazine Left off Its List of ‘The New Classics’
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1minutebookreviewswordpresscom wrote 1 month ago: Isn’t poetry ever “a good read”? Entertainment Weekly has published a list of “The New Class … more »
Ten Books That Should Have Been on Entertainment Weekly’s List of the ‘The 100 Best Reads’ of the Past 25 Years But Weren’t
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1minutebookreviewswordpresscom wrote 1 month ago: I love Entertainment Weekly’s annual list of the year’s worst books, which is usually right … more »
"shall we avoid them as unlucky places?"
colette wrote 1 month ago: One day in 2001, I went to my Aunt Mary’s house to show her what I’d collected from mont … more »
zeynep kayan - red dresses, miasmic debris
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killingdenouement wrote 1 month ago: I was thinking of how I know next to nothing about Turkish art, at that, despite periodic bouts of … more »
Jazz Champions and Gyles Brandreth
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katyboo1 wrote 1 month ago: I don’t buy newspapers any more. My friend Kim and I were discussing this the other day. We ag … more »
05.24.2008
Ryan wrote 2 months ago: The Old Fools (an excerpt from the poem by Philip Larkin) Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms … more »
A serious house on serious earth
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Deb wrote 2 months ago: Whit Sunday came to us with rays of sunshine, clear blue skies and finally a summer breeze. We ce … more »
Yet still the unresting castles thresh
Chip Cain wrote 3 months ago: The Trees The trees are coming into leaf Like something almost being said; The recent buds relax and … more »
Library has too many users! Oh no!
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tsrosenberg wrote 3 months ago: Apparently some people are very upset about the fact that undergraduates are clogging up all the de … more »
Faith Is
jonmsweeney wrote 3 months ago: The British poet (and librarian) Philip Larkin, once wrote, “Courage means not scaring others. … more »
session 1
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Sunili wrote 4 months ago: So I saw an interesting book in the waiting room before my first psychologist appointment today: The … more »
perhaps not irreparably so
jensenwilder wrote 4 months ago: Even when she’s caught out I am still short of beckoning any remorse from her. She doesn’t … more »
poetry of departures
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marxsbeard wrote 5 months ago: so moving house after four long irritating months. yes thank you glasgow west end estate agents yo … more »
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