Poetry News, Reviews & Special Features:

A Poetry Daily Prose Feature:

"Deep down, in the darkest part of the heart, no matter how modest we have become or profess to be, doesn't every writer - woken in the middle of the night for an immediate Yes or No - wish for Fame?" From Fugue:
Christopher Buckley's "Fame & Fortune, or, I am not Christopher Buckley"

In the News....

"Do I contradict myself? Very well then..."

• John Kinsella's Fast, Loose Beginnings: A Memoir of Intoxications reviewed by Jaya Savige. (From The Sydney Morning Herald.)

Not just for specialists:

• The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within, by Stephen Fry, reviewed by Claudia La Rocco. (From The New York Times.)

"He was no teddy bear."

• Sam Leith reviews two biographies of John Betjeman. (From The Spectator.)

Once more unto the breach, dear friends:

• John Sutherland visits the trenches of recent Shakespeare scholarship. (From The Financial Times.)

"Microwave biography at its worst":

• Mark Ford on John Donne: The Reformed Soul, by John Stubbs. (From The Financial Times.)

"Plenty of attitude... as well as the skill to back it up":

• Maggie Dietz's Perennial Fall reviewed by David Kirby. (From The New York Times.)

Poet's Choice:

• Robert Pinsky introduces poems by Ogden Nash. (From The Washington Post.)

"We are in a border time..."

• Alberto Ríos talks about his work and his most recent collection, The Theater of Night. (From the Online NewsHour.)

"'English is exhausted'... but you use whatever you have in your magic hat":

• Vincent Woods talks with Ulster writer Tom Mac Intyre about his new collection ABC. (Audio from RTÉ Radio 1 and Rattlebag.)

The Staircase Poetry Project:

• Vincent Woods talks with Caoimhín Corrigan, Arts Officer for Co Leitrim, and poet Alice Lyons about a project joining poetry and visual arts. (Audio from RTÉ Radio 1 and Rattlebag.)

Yet once more, O ye laurels:

• David Biespiel reflects on the tradition of elegies for fellow poets and introduces Seamus Heaney's "Stern". (From The Oregonian.)

"To dodge the curst conceit o' bein' richt":

• Scott Lyall on Hugh MacDiarmid. (From The Scotsman.)

New Arrivals:

These just in... Highlighted titles may be purchased from Poetry Daily / Amazon.com. A complete list of all books and journals recently received at Poetry Daily is also available.

• Scar Tissue, Charles Wright (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• This Far from the Source, Neil Shepard (Mid-List Press)
• Shell Island, Ian Parks (The Waywiser Press)
• Brother Salvage, Rick Hilles (University of Pittsburgh Press)
• Kitchen Heat, Ava Leavell Haymon (Louisiana State University Press)
• More Wordworks, Richard Kostelanetz (Talisman House)
• Famous, Kathleen Flenniken (University of Nebraska Press)
• The Magical Breasts of Britney Spears, Ryan G. Van Cleave (Red Hen Press)
• Garnet Lanterns, Sally Rosen Kindred (The Anabiosis Press)
• She Alone, John Menaghan (Salmon Publishing/Dufour Editions)
• Vision Mixer, Duncan Forbes (Enitharmon Press/Dufour Editions)
• On Two Shores, Mutsuo Takahashi (Dedalus Press/Dufour Editions)
• The Cut of the Light, Jeremy Hooker (Enitharmon Press/Dufour Editions)
• The Anteroom of Paradise, Bruce Bond (Silverfish Review Press)
• Landscape with Silos, Deborah Bogen (Texas Review Press)
• Nota Bene Poems: A Journey, Stephen Bett (Ekstasis Editions)
• The Book of Korean Poetry: Songs of Shilla and Koryo, t. and ed. Kevin O'Rourke (University of Iowa Press)
• Admit the Peacock, Rebecca Kaiser Gibson (Roundy Wells Press)
• Inside the Exhibition, Rebecca Kaiser Gibson (Roundy Wells Press)

Recent Anthologies, etc.

• Poetry Daily: 366 Poems from the World's Most Popular Poetry Website, Diane Boller, Don Selby, Chryss Yost, ed.s (Sourcebooks)
• 100 Essential Modern Poems, ed. Joseph Parisi (Ivan R. Dee)
• Six Modernist Moments in Poetry, David Young (University of Iowa Press)
• Poetry Speaks to Children (book & CD), ed. Elise Paschen (Sourcebooks)
• Poetry Speaks 2006 Calendar: A Year of Great Poems and Poets (box set) (Sourcebooks)
• The Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry, Arnold Rampersad, Hilary Herbold, ed.s (Oxford University Press)
• The Best American Poetry 2005, Paul Muldoon and David Lehman, ed.s (Scribner)
• The Wake Forest Series Of Irish Poetry, Volume One (Harry Clifton, Dennis O'Driscoll, David Wheatley, Sinéad Morrissey, and Caitríona O' Reilly), ed. Jefferson Holdridge (Wake Forest University Press)
• Disappearing Ink: Poetry at the End of Print Culture, Dana Gioia (Graywolf Press)
• 2006 Poets Market, Nancy Breen, ed. (Writers Digest Books)
• To Sound Like Yourself: Essays on Poetry, W. D. Snodgrass (BOA Editions, Ltd.)
• Poetry Speaks: Hear Great Poets Read Their Work from Tennyson to Plath, Elise Paschen & Rebekah Presson Mosby, ed.s (Sourcebooks)

Past Features:

Original articles, interviews, selections from special collections and journal issues, and more....

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