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'The Apple's Progress', by Maitreyabandhu
‘The Apple’s Progress’, by Maitreyabandhu
‘The Apple’s Progress’ follows in the footsteps of a long history of poetry about art, famous examples including John Keats’ ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’ and WH Auden’s reflection on Pieter Breugel the Elder’s ‘Landscape with the Fall of Icarus’, both of which you’ve likely read if you’re already into reading blogs about poetry. I’ve got a great little book that I picked up in New York while I was…
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Two-Headed Calf: Review of Jacob Polley’s 'Jackself'
Two-Headed Calf: Review of Jacob Polley’s ‘Jackself’
Of those people I spoke to, many poetry readers were surprised and delighted that Jacob Polley’s Jackself recently won the 2016 T.S. Eliot Prize against competition from the likes of Capildeo, Duhig, Oswald and Riley among others. Caught between a desire that prizes go only to the very best work and a wish that poetry’s few rewards be more equitably distributed, I was also delighted as this is a…
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Many of us know Maitreyabandhu as a Buddhist teacher and writer, but he’s also a published poet. So we thought it would be interesting to find out about his view of the role of poetry in spiritual life. Here’s what…