2022 Posts

A List Arranged in Chronological Order

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About: Welcome to Poetry Notes. How this blog began.

Review Excerpt: Line and Detail, Heidi Greco, Practical Anxiety (Inanna Publications, 2018)

Review: M. Travis Lane, The Witch of the Inner Wood: Collected Long Poems (Goose Lane Editions, 2016)

Cover Blurb: Sonia Saikaley, A Samurai’s Pink House (Inanna, 2017)

Cover Blurb: Monika Lee, If Water Breathes (Resource Publications, 2019)

Note: Detail, three thoughts on its use in poetry

Note: Free-write, a loosening-up creative exercise

Note: Dirty Work, writing a poem as akin to gardening

Note: “Progress” in poetry

Note: Imagery That Dismays three kinds

Note: Imagery - Sequence, using the clearest order

Review Excerpt: Line, Kevin Shaw, Smaller Hours (Goose Lane Editions 2017)

Note: The Poem As…

Note: Metre (1), resistance to

Commentary: Blaine Marchand, Becoming History: A Life Told Through Poetry (Aeolus House, 2021)

Commentary: Marvyne Jenoff, Climbing the Rain (Silver Bow Publishing, 2021)

Commentary: Carmen Starnino, “Poetry & digital personhood: On artificial intelligence and creativity” (The New Criterion, Vol. 40, No. 9 / May 2022)

Response: More on AI and Poetry, a statement by technologist and poet David Brayley

Note: Metre (2), an aid to scansion

Note: Surprise, the advantage of

Note: Metre (3) David Brayley on metre as the structure underpinning all poems

Note: Metre (4), making the pattern audible

Note: Revision (1), keeping the freshness

Note: Revision (2), projecting outside the poet’s skull

Note: Tight Poem, solid not thin

Commentary: The Big If, what a poem can do

Note: Symbol, contrasted with extended metaphor

Commentary: Frog’s Progress: A Fable

Note: Cooking with Poetry

Commentary: Know Your Critics

Note: The Integrity of the Line

Note: Writing on the Edge

Commentary: Poet’s Progress: Or Not?