The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities. The category of 'the literary' has always been contentious. What is clear…
From the publisher. Many people in Great Britain and the United States can recall elderly relatives who remembered long stretches of verse learned at school decades earlier, yet most of us were never required to recite in class. Heart Beats is the first book to examine how poetr…
Many people in Great Britain and the United States can recall elderly relatives who remembered long stretches of verse learned at school decades earlier, yet most of us were never required to recite in class. Heart Beats is the first book to examine how poetry recitation came to…
A world of dew. And within every dewdrop. A world of struggle. The iconic three-line haiku form is increasingly popular today as people embrace its simplicity and grace-and its connections to the Japanese ethos of mindfulness and minimalism. Say more with fewer words. This pract…
After apple picking / by Robert Frost -- A Black man talks of reaping / by Arna Bontemps -- Everything is plundered / by Anna Akhmatova -- The explorer / by Gwendolyn Brooks -- Grudnow / by Linda Pastan -- Hanging fire / by Audre Lorde -- The horses / by Ted Hughes -- In respons…
