to read one against the other? Next to "Burning the Leaves", "The Bonfire" seems both more suggestive, the more restrained, the later poem coming across all the more strongly as a piece of commentary, an interpretation. [Edrica] Huws uses enjambement more adventurously than [Howard] Nemerov. Nemerov seems to belong to the crowd ("We thought of all the generations gone"), Huws to be the more widely watchful, detailing the effects of the bonfire's collapse from the immediate human reaction to the owl's bafflement to the lingering aftermath.The Bonfire
from The Times Literary Supplement: Poem of the Week: The Bonfire and Burning the Leaves
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We all like a laugh, we're all interested in unusual sex ([Gavin] Ewart certainly was), and close observation is equally the keystone of scientific method and comedy. Ewart's erotic and satirical poetry was often love poetry in disguise, of course. Two Semantic Limericks
from The Times Literary Supplement: Poem of the Week: Two Semantic Limericks
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