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Smart devices : 52 poems from the Guardian 'poem of the week'

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A year of hand-picked poems and commentaries from the Guardian's 'Poem of the Week' blog. Carol Rumens has been contributing 'Poem of the Week' to the Guardian for more than a dozen years.

Do the maths: that's more than 624 blogs! No wonder she has a large and devoted following. She's a poet-reader, not an academic. She is fascinated by the new, but her interest is instructed by the classic poems she has read.

They make her ear demanding: when it hears that something, it perks up.

She perks up. 'A poem is a small (or large) machine made of words.' Rumens partly agrees with Williams but she develops the conceit, seeing each poem 'as a more flexible instrument, a miniature neo-cortex, that super-connective, super-layered smartest device of the mammalian brain'. She tries to avoid poems built from kits with instruction manuals.

She looks for surprises, and she surprises us.

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Lives and Letters
1784107794 / 9781784107796
Paperback / softback
26/09/2019
United Kingdom
English
240 pages
22 cm