POETRY
January/February 2012
Review of new poetry from Carol Ann Duffy, Derwent May, W.G. Sebald and Tomas Tranströmer
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December 2011
The 17th-century Dean celebrated prosperity as well as poetry and felt no need to transform the Church into an agency of social work
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November 2011
Philip Larkin's letters to his lover Monica Jones speak of a non-sexual intimacy and chart his progression to poetic maturity
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May 2011
This Victorian versifier has always been an acquired taste, even to his contemporaries. But today, his prolific output is barely read at all — and we are poorer for it
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