Typewriters, plagiarism and the poetic line are just three of the subjects under the spotlight in this book of essays by much-loved literary blogger Katy Evans-Bush.
Studies of Ted Hughes, Louis MacNeice and Dylan Thomas sit alongside a new look at Keats, a search for forgotten war poet Eloise Robinson, and practical guides on poetic technique. Katy Evans-Bush combines the intellectual rigour of the literary critic with the dynamism of a seasoned traveller in the blogosphere. These essays place poetry at the heart of contemporary culture, meeting at the borders it shares with music, politics and sculpture. She writes about art and life in a way that is generous, witty and incisive.
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Reviews
It’s a thrill to read these essays from our foremost blogger. It’s testament to her talent and a validation of blogging in general. [...] Katy is disarmingly well read, humane and infectiously engaging.
John Field, Poor Rude Lines
We are able to see the connections between avenues of research: how a quote from one poet has made her think of another’s work, or how the meeting of two poets means that a mystery must be solved. [...] By selecting a wide range of topics for her essays, Evans-Bush provides an overview of areas of the poetry world, and invites her readers to partake in reading and research of their own.
Becky Varley-Winter, Sabotage Reviews
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Praise for Katy Evans-Bush
Katy Evans-Bush is an incredibly astute, accessible and stylish critic
Suzanne Moore
Sharp, wry … wears her considerable erudition lightly
Time Out
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Contents
The Hidden Life of Poets
The Poem is a Question: Keats, Negative Capability and Us
James Merrill: Formal Radical
Compendium in Time
An Earnest Chestnut for Remembrance Day
The Search for Eloise Robinson
A Hell of an Underwriter: Three Insurance Men with a Difference
Because London Is Still a Kaleidoscope
There’s No Place Like Home: The Poetry of Dorothy Molloy
Men’s Troubles: Seidel, Ashbery & Elliott
To Hull and Braque: Marching to the Drumbeats
These Fragments We Have Shored Against Our Ruin
Gifts of Earth: Letters of Ted Hughes
The Dylan Thomas Question
Man of Jazz and Conscience: MacNeice’s Autumn Journal
Beauty and Meaning: Free the Word!
By the Light of the Silvery Moon: Dowson, Schoenberg and the Birth
of Modernism
Now I’m a Real Boy: Poetry’s Plagiarism Problem
The Line
My Life in Typewriters
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Launch
Wednesday 2 December
Keats House, London
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