2002 in Literature - Poetry

Poetry

  • Jim Dodge - Rain on the River
  • Linton Kwesi Johnson - Mi Revalueshanary Fren
  • Grazyna Miller - Alibi of a butterfly

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    “Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A really great poet is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are, the more picturesque they look. The mere fact of having published a book of second-rate sonnets makes a man quite irresistible. He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.”
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