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Music of Verse

Posted by Colin Holcombe on 19 11 13 in Poetry | 0 comments

The music of verse: examples and the role it plays.

4 Poets in the Bellevue Literary Review

Posted by Colin Holcombe on 17 11 13 in Poetry | 0 comments

Four poets in the Bellevue Literary Review: Chard deNiord, Virginia Chase Sutton, Brenna Working Lemieux and Amanda Auchter.

Dowson and the Eighteen Nineties

Posted by Colin Holcombe on 12 11 13 in Poetry | 1 comment

Dowson’s achievement and Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae.

American Poetry and Its Institutions

Posted by Colin Holcombe on 2 11 13 in Poetry | 0 comments

Current poetry statistics for the USA.

5 Poets in The Atlantic

Posted by Colin Holcombe on 28 10 13 in Poetry | 0 comments

Five poets published by The Atlantic: Peter Davidson, Linda Gregson, Stanley Plumly, Ted Kooser and Carl Dennison.

3 Poets from the TriQuarterly

Posted by Colin Holcombe on 12 10 13 in Poetry | 0 comments

A brief look at three poems in the TriQuarterly, by Kate Braverman, Kyle McCord and Cortney Kampa.

4 Poets in AGNI

Posted by Colin Holcombe on 5 10 13 in Poetry | 0 comments

Four poets from AGNI: Jason Sommer, Simon Armitage, Annie Boutelle and Carolina Ebeid.

3 Poems from Fieralingue

Posted by Colin Holcombe on 30 09 13 in Poetry | 0 comments

3 Poems from Fieralingue: a literary analysis of poems by Charles Alexander, Millicent Borges Accardi and Ruth Fainlight.

6 Poets from AbleMuse

Posted by Colin Holcombe on 21 09 13 in Poetry | 0 comments

AbleMuse was always an attractive online poetry magazine, and its newer incarnation is snazzier than ever, with illustrated poems, brief biographies, sensible reviews and extended articles of interest to New Formalist writers.

3 Shearsman Poets

Posted by Colin Holcombe on 11 09 13 in Poetry | 0 comments

Shearsman has an enviable track record: thirty years of consistently turning out work by some of the most interesting of contemporary UK and USA poets. The ebooks are inexpensive but admirably produced, their covers being a particular delight to anyone who cares for graphic design.

3 Poets from Diagram

Posted by Colin Holcombe on 3 09 13 in Poetry | 0 comments

DIAGRAM is a popular online journal offering poetry, prose and graphics that have some connection with representation, naming or the taxonomy of things. The journal describes itself as ‘odd but good’,

Who Runs Poetry?

Posted by Colin Holcombe on 22 08 13 in Poetry | 3 comments

Seamus Heaney’s collection, District and Circle. Faber