The Weatherings issue of Agenda , vol 55 nos 1-2, has several special features. There are elegies for three great poets who died regrettably towards the end of last year: Grey Gowrie, Thomas Kinsella and Brendan Kennelly, all of whom will be much missed, even though their voices will live on. There are in-depth interviews with two multiple award-winnng poets: David Harsent, and James Harpur. In keeping with the Agenda tradition to give space to the long poem, here long poems or sequences are interspersed with more ...
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The Weatherings issue of Agenda , vol 55 nos 1-2, has several special features. There are elegies for three great poets who died regrettably towards the end of last year: Grey Gowrie, Thomas Kinsella and Brendan Kennelly, all of whom will be much missed, even though their voices will live on. There are in-depth interviews with two multiple award-winnng poets: David Harsent, and James Harpur. In keeping with the Agenda tradition to give space to the long poem, here long poems or sequences are interspersed with more compact poems so the reader can dip in and out of whatever poem they fancy. Poets include known and lesser known voices such as John F Deane, Peter Dale, Jane Lovell, Jeremy Hooker, David Cooke, Gerard Smyth, Peter Carpenter, Greg Delanty, Mary O'Donnell among others; translations of Paul �luard, Marina Tsvetaeva and Rilke by Timothy Ad�s, Belinda Cooke and Will Stone respectively, with a chosen young poet, Betty Doyle. There is a variety of stimulating reviews, and a special treat in the Notes for Broadsheet Poets series, with edited sections of C Day Lewis's essay 'Making a Poem', presented by Professor Albert Gelpi, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the death of this somewhat undeservedly neglected poet.
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