Monday, 13 February 2012

Valentine's Day

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.

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