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fromwww.theguardian.com
5 days ago

The best recent poetry review roundup

Andrew Motion's latest collection explores mortality and loss through elegies, showing a shift toward rootedness and acceptance of death as a universal human experience rather than personal bewilderment.
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fromThe New Yorker
2 weeks ago

Adrian Matejka Reads C. D. Wright

Adrian Matejka reads poetry selections including C. D. Wright's 'Against the Encroaching Grays' and his own poem 'Almost Home' in conversation with Kevin Young.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

The best recent poetry review roundup

The three poetry collections examine war, memory, death, labor, masculinity, and spiritual redemption through diverse forms and narrative sequences rooted in everyday and ritual imagery.
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fromThe New Yorker
3 months ago

Briefly Noted Book Reviews

Two midcentury English couples navigate secrecy, trauma, and shifting modernity amid a brutal winter, while a contemporary poetry collection probes desire, grief, and language's transformations.
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