http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/feb/10/love-poems-writers-favourites-valentines-day
Poetry is becoming a little bit too closely associated with Valentine's Day from what I've seen in the media this year. It's an unholy alliance. Of course 'love' is one of the recurrent themes in poetry but poetry can be about anything and everything else and is short-changed by being thus typecast - but this feature at least gives an outing to some excellent choices by those asked to select a poem.
Blake Morrison very nearly got it right. Touch is, of course, a seminal and completely wonderful poem but the right answer was Thom's Tamer and Hawk.
David Green
- David Green (Books) is the imprint under which I published booklets of my own poems. The original allocation of ISBN numbers is used up now, though. The 'Collected Poems' are now available as a pdf. The website is now what it has become, often more about music than books and not so often about poems. It will be about whatever suggests itself.
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Monday, 13 February 2012
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