Poetry London is a literary periodical based in London. Published three times a year, it features poems, reviews, and other articles. Adopting the title...
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a series of five anthologies named Georgian Poetry, published by Harold Monro's Poetry Bookshop in London and edited by Edward Marsh, the first volume...
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Poetry (from the Greek word poiesis, "making") is a form of literary art that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meanings...
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A poetry slam is a competitive art event in which poets perform spoken word poetry before a live audience and a panel of judges. While formats can vary...
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Poetry London: A Bi-Monthly of Modern Verse and Criticism was a leading London-based literary periodical published intermittently between 1939 and 1951...
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Prose poetry is poetry written in prose form instead of verse form while otherwise deferring to poetic devices to make meaning. Prose poetry is written...
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Arabic poetry (Arabic: الشعر العربي ash-shi‘r al-‘arabīyy) is one of the earliest forms of Arabic literature. Pre-Islamic Arabic poetry contains the bulk...
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Meary James Thurairajah Tambimuttu (section Poetry)
scenes of London and New York City. In 1939 he founded the respected literary magazine Poetry London, which "soon became the best known poetry periodical...
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Cornelia Hoogland (section Poetry)
areas of poetry and theatre. In 2004, she founded and was the director until 2011 of Antler River Poetry (formerly Poetry London), a poetry reading and...
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Concrete poetry is an arrangement of linguistic elements in which the typographical effect is more important in conveying meaning than verbal significance...
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Scansion (redirect from Scanning (poetry))
verse. In classical poetry, these patterns are quantitative based on the different lengths of each syllable, while in English poetry, they are based on...
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The Faber Book of Twentieth-Century Women's Poetry is a poetry anthology edited by Fleur Adcock that was published in 1987 by Faber and Faber. Sixty-four...
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in publications and outlets including The New York Times, Poetry Review, Rialto, Poetry London, Triquarterly Review, Boston Review, Callaloo, and Wasafiri...
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The Poetry Bookshop operated at 35 Devonshire Street (now Boswell Street) in the Bloomsbury district of central London, from 1913 to 1926. It was the brainchild...
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contributed in the war years to Poetry London and Poetry Quarterly; later to Poetry Review. He was also published in Air Force Poetry (1944). In 1977 he published...
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Michael Hamburger (category Academics of University College London)
Copyright 1968 Charles Baudelaire, Twenty Prose Poems (translator), London, Poetry London, 1946 (revised ed. San Francisco, City Light Books 1988) Flowering...
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Liz Berry (section Poetry career)
interested in poetry after taking a beginners' poetry class at a local college. She later attended the Royal Holloway, University of London, where she earned...
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lengths') and shīyú (詩餘; 诗馀; 'the poetry besides Shi'), is a type of lyric poetry in the tradition of Classical Chinese poetry that also draws upon folk traditions...
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Codex Exoniensis. A Collection of Anglo-Saxon Poetry. London: William Pickering. Old English Poetry in Facsimile project Digital edition and translation...
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Ben Okri (category Pages containing London Gazette template with parameter supp set to y)
African Elegy (poetry; London: Jonathan Cape, 1992) Birds of Heaven (essays; London: Phoenix House, 1996) A Way of Being Free (essays; London: Weidenfeld...
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Fitzrovia (redirect from Fitzroy Street, London)
Forties that Meary James Thurairajah Tambimuttu aka "Tambi", editor of Poetry London, had used the name Fitzrovia. Tambi had apparently claimed to have coined...
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Robert Graves (category Oxford Professors of Poetry)
University Press 1988). Selected Poetry and Prose (ed. James Reeves). London: Hutchinson, 1961. Oxford Addresses on Poetry. London: Cassell, 1962; New York:...
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The Professor of Poetry is an academic appointment at the University of Oxford. The chair was created in 1708 by an endowment from the estate of Henry...
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Cynewulf (section Views on poetry)
English Christian Poetry, New York: Oxford University Press Raw, Barabara C. (1978). The Art and Background of Old English Poetry, London: Edward Arnold...
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Nasir al-Din Nasir Hunzai (section Poetry)
(1996). (transl. & ed.) Shimmering Light: An Anthology of Isma'ili Poetry. London, England: I.B. Tauris in association with The Institute of Isma'ili...
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'epic' could refer to all poetry in dactylic hexameter (epea), which included not only Homer but also the wisdom poetry of Hesiod, the utterances of...
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into Thomas Hardy's Poetry (London 1989) p. 151, p. 124-7, and p. 175 J. C. Brown, A Journey into Thomas Hardy's Poetry (London 1989) p. 124 and p. 174...
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is "the longest lived of the Classical lyric strophes in the West". In poetry, "Sapphic" may refer to three distinct but related Aeolic verse forms: The...
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Sappho (section Surviving poetry)
Eresos or Mytilene on the island of Lesbos. Sappho is known for her lyric poetry, written to be sung while accompanied by music. In ancient times, Sappho...
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Greybeards at Play (poetry), London: R. Brimley Johnson. ——— (1900), The Wild Knight and Other Poems (poetry). ——— (1901), The Defendant , London: R. Brimley...
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