More poetry, please. And pagination, too | Letters

Readers of Review miss the Guardian’s Saturday poem and information about the number of pages in each book reviewedThe poem Do You Think We’ll Ever Get To See Earth, Sir?, by Sheenagh Pugh, appeared in the Guardian many years ago (The Saturday poem, 25 November 2000). It made such an impression that I cut it out and stuck it in my notebook, where I look at it from time to time, along with others. With the interest in poetry reviving, could you once again select and print a weekly poem for its apposite reflection on current happenings?Shirley HarringtonBury• Useful though it is to be informed in the book reviews that a memoir is a Memoir – or rather, a {Memoir} in curly brackets – it would be rather more useful if you could note the number of pages in each book, something that has been needlessly lost in your otherwise elegant redesign of the Review on Saturdays.Dr Richard Carter London Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'

[ The Guardian | 2018-04-09 00:00:00 UTC ]

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National Book Award 2014 nominees for fiction, nonfiction, poetry and young people's literature are announced

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National Book Award 2014 Poetry Finalists

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Art, Poetry, and Food Combine in Eric-Shabazz Larkin's 'A Moose Boosh'

In Eric-Shabazz Larkin's new collection of children's poetry, 'A Moose Boosh,' he combines playful and political poems about food and food culture with photographs "vandalized" with his own scribblings and doodles. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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Winchester to see first Wilfred Owen poetry winner

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Robert Hass Wins $100K Poetry Prize

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Lee Child: Amazon's Readers United letter 'disingenuous'

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