Gary Geddes on Amazon.
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Tagged Books, Gary Geddes, Indian Hospitals, Indian Residential Schools, Podcast, Podcasts, Poetry
A GUARDIAN UK article, written by Alison Flood and published over the weekend, quotes the Forward prize judge and TV presenter Jeremy Paxman as wishing aloud that “poetry ‘would raise its game a little bit, raise its sights’, and ‘aim to engage with ordinary people much more.’” Every so often you encounter this lament, often uttered by poets, that poetry has become irrelevant to the great mass of plain old folk.
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Tagged Alison Flood, Blake, Chaucer, Guardian UK, Jeremy Paxman, Literature, Milton, Percy Shelley, Philip Sidney, Plato, Poems, Poetry, Shakespeare, Spenser, Wordsworth
A PILLOW BOOK is an open-ended and spontaneous collection of fragments, and as such may include lists, observations, poems, short personal essays and diary entries. A precursor of the genre zuihitsu (random jottings – the more literal meaning to proceed, or follow, with a brush), this literary form made its appearance under the title Makura no Sōshi, or Notes of the Pillow, one thousand years ago.
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Tagged Commonplacing, Diary, Japan, Journals, Literature, Observation, Pillow Book, Poetry, Sei Shōnagon, Writers, Writing
