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Tag: footstep

Posted on 25 August 201316 October 2013

On Poetry… Pulse and Chime

If poetry ought to have presence, then it also has a body, or in Glyn Maxwell’s words, is “creaturely” (page 88). So it has a heartbeat, a pulse, a footstep, it breathes. Continue reading “On Poetry… Pulse and Chime”

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