Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Great Regulars: [Lavinia] Greenlaw's piece--by virtue

of the fact that it is set in verse and commands the kind of attention we give to poetry--begins to hint at other meanings, too: like Yarborough's spreading foreshore, poetry itself is often won from the liminal spaces between what we can see and what we cannot, working "by imperceptible increase" until its suggestions surface and add to what we know--and possess.

Lord Yarborough's Defence

from The Times Literary Supplement: Poem of the Week: Lord Yarborough's Defence

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