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If teaching has taught me one thing it’s that, without diminishment of its transformative capacities, poetry could find a much wider literary audience if only it were taught earlier as a different mode of reading: more figurative than literal, more connotative than denotative.

“Forget the risible rise of the hot take / then, poets who play politics, mistake / strength of feeling for technique.” A couple of new poems in this week’s The Spectator, including this little number.

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“An island is one great eye gazing out / the poet once said, an image I like / for its stubbornness …” 🏝️ A new poem, riffing off a line from the great Yusef Komunyakaa. In the current issue of the The Spectator (10 May). 📕

“The malady of every conscious person is that none of their efforts to evade the pain and agitation of feeling, however strenuous, can succeed.” Josh Cohen’s Not Working: Why We Have To Stop (Granta Books) really is a magnificent work, weaving psychoanalysis, art, and memoir.

A lovely #poem by Ben Wilkinson in this week's The Spectator.

The problem with AI replacing human art is that all art is ultimately a conversation about what it means to be fully and complexly human, this miraculous form of consciousness. Creating a convincing simulacrum of that may be a technical achievement, but it is a hollow one.

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“Only a society despairing of its own destiny, devoid of any desires beyond economic reproduction, could allow itself to cast in doubt the so called difficult art of poetry. I don’t think much of a state that keeps badgering you for self-justification.” —Durs Grünbein

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This is one of the greatest photos in the club’s history.

‘Literature is the antidote to numbness.’ What questions should today’s writers and artists be asking? Responses from authors at the Hay Festival and the TLS the-tls.co.uk/literature/hay…

“The question of whether AI can or can’t currently write good literature is, for now, a red herring, a distraction from the fact that the Data Bill would constitute a legalization of theft and a decimation of an industry.” Katherine Rundell in The TLS. the-tls.co.uk/literature/hay…

“I'd like to get away from earth awhile And then come back to it and begin over. May no fate willfully misunderstand me And half grant what I wish and snatch me away Not to return. Earth's the right place for love: I don't know where it's likely to go better.” —Robert Frost

'Criticism should ‘take part in the work and continue it’, and hence be a work of art in itself.' Jonathan Taylor (Jonathan Taylor): Poetry and criticism are forever entwined the-tls.co.uk/literature/lit…