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Carol Rumens has been contributing 'Poem of the Week' to the Guardian for more than a dozen years. Do the maths: that s more than 624 blogs! No wonder she has a large and devoted following. She s a poet reader, not an academic. She is in love with the new, but her love is instructed by the great poems she has read. They make her ear demanding: when it hears that something, it perks up.
She perks up. She feels her way, agreeing with William Carlos Williams that, 'A poem is a small (or large) machine made of words.' And he adds, 'Prose may carry a load of ill-defined matters like a ship. But poetry is the machine which drives it, pruned to a perfect economy. As in all machines its movement is intrinsic, undulant, a physical more than a literary character.' She tries to avoid machines built from kits with instruction manuals. She looks for surprises, and she surprises us. Rumens has published seventeen collections of poetry and currently teaches Creative Writing part-time at the University of Bangor.
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'To judge by the insights she has into the poems of others [...] Carol Rumens is highly attuned to atmospheric variations.' --Kate Miller, TLS
About the Author
Carol Rumens was born in Forest Hill, South London, in 1944. She began writing music reviews for the local press when she was sixteen, and her various jobs include the Northern Arts Fellowship, and writer in residence at Queen's University Belfast, University College Cork and the University of Stockholm. She writes fiction and drama and has translated Russian poetry with her late partner, Yuri Drobyshev. Rumens has published seventeen collections of poetry and currently teaches Creative Writing part-time at the University of Bangor.
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- PublisherCarcanet Press Ltd
- Publication date2019
- ISBN 10 1784107794
- ISBN 13 9781784107796
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages256
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