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		<title>Poetic Form</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[DO YOU CHOOSE THE FORM THAT YOUR POETRY TAKES? Or does it choose you? Is it easier to write in free verse rather than within the confines of a fixed form? T. S. Eliot said, at the beginning of the twentieth century, around the time of the inception of free verse, that ‘the most interesting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shall We Sack the Poet Laureate?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I WAS JUST IDLY THINKING, as you do, about the job of the Poet Laureate, and the pressure of having to write poetry in response to events like the monarch’s birthday, royal births and marriages, and world events generally. I was wondering whether the necessity of having to produce poetry to order could ever turn [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where Do Poems Come From?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT HOW we choose subjects for poems. I know that quite often they choose themselves, but I sometimes use visual prompts – photographs, paintings, objects, etc &#8211; as a way of firing the imagination. I’ve also been interested in something called ekphrasis, which is a rhetorical device in which one medium of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is Poetry?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[IF THE WORDS DON&#8217;T REACH the end of the page and the lines form clusters or patterns you will guess what you see might be - poetry Maybe. Or maybe not. Poems aren’t like crosswords: they don’t have straightforward solutions. A look at what poetry might be may well lead to more questions than answers. [...]]]></description>
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