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TheFifthElement
05-02-2009, 12:10 PM
Another British great passes away: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/apr/30/ua-fanthorpe-poet-dies

Rest in peace, U. A. Fanthorpe.

Lovely tribute from Carol Ann Duffy here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/may/02/premonitions-carol-ann-duffy

And a poem from Fanthorpe, for the uninitiated: http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoem.do;jsessionid=6CF71F1E5A8D41420624484E7 2B54097?poemId=158
Virgil
05-02-2009, 02:24 PM
Thank you for this Fifth. I had never heard of her. Seems interesting and that poem was very good.
Pecksie
05-02-2009, 08:01 PM
It seems that we're losing good poets everywhere. Uruguay's Idea Vilariņo died this week too. For the interested, some of her poetry has been translated into English.
no one special
05-12-2009, 07:37 AM
The backward-moving Carol Ann Duffy poem link in #1 is amazing. Reminds me of Martin Amis's novel Times Arrow.