March 11th, 2008
The Great Poets in The Guardian
Starting today, for the next seven days, the Guardian is giving away free booklets on The Great Poets of the 20th Century. Each booklet features several works by each poet, an introduction by a literary figure, archive reviews and reproductions of original manuscripts.
Today it’s TS Eliot, and the other featured poets are Auden, Plath, Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes, Siegfried Sassoon and Seamus Heaney (with a forward by John Banville).
There will also be a free CD, which will include the poets reading their work.
March 11th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
The Guardian is a fantastic newspaper; this kind of thing is the icing on the cake.
March 11th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
Oh thanks for the notification. I think I know what paper I’ll be asking my Mum to pick up for me…
March 11th, 2008 at 3:14 pm
Cool,look forward to them all,thanks for the notice. And they put them online too,which is nice.
March 11th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
Jazz biscuit, it is indeed. There was another nice one recently, the Greek Myths. Love the Jazz Biscuit website, btw.
Red, do that, it’s for the next week. The UK Indo is running a similar one, but it’s 15 days, and the booklets are not as nice.
Adam, thanks for comment, it’s nice to be able to read the intros online alright. I just sent the links to an American lit blogger who is a big Banville fan and will no doubt want to read his foreward to Heaney.
March 11th, 2008 at 4:28 pm
Very interesting…. the Independent is doing the exact same over here this week with UK poets.
Cross-channel inter-poetry conferencing?
March 12th, 2008 at 1:00 am
Was just remembering your tale of having to transcribe a Banville interview from memory in one of your posts over the last while? Scary.
On a completely different point, have you heard the Bon Hiver album? Trying to find someone who has so we can agree on how incredible it is..
March 14th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
speaking of sylvia - i put music to her reading of fever 103. u can hear it at http://www.myspace.com/invisiblealan