{"id":25611,"date":"2014-05-17T06:30:42","date_gmt":"2014-05-16T18:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=25611"},"modified":"2014-05-18T16:35:33","modified_gmt":"2014-05-18T04:35:33","slug":"why-im-re-featuring-tuesday-poems-poets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2014\/05\/17\/why-im-re-featuring-tuesday-poems-poets\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I’m Re-featuring Tuesday Poems — & Poets"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>You may have noticed I’ve begun refeaturing Tuesday Poems from the past four years “by poet”, i.e. focusing on those instances where I’ve featured more than one poem by the same poet.<\/p>\n

I’m doing this for several reasons. The first is because if a poem is worth featuring once then it’s worth relooking at as well.\u00a0 Poetry, in my humble opinion, is to be read, re-read, and returned to, not just a “one hit wonder.” In fact, I feel pretty much the same about literature generally… So yes, I am inflicting my practice, as well as my opine, on you. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Moreover, it’s too easy for great work to get buried in the blog backlist, so it’s good to reshine the light for that reason also.<\/p>\n

Plus, re-featuring the poem “by poet” gives you, as blog readers, a chance to appreciate not just a single poem, but also the style of a poet and gain an appreciation for what her or his body of work may comprise: his or her “oeuvre” in other words.<\/p>\n

And because it’s straightforward, I’ll shall continue re-featuring the poets in alphabetical order by surname, from A – Z.<\/p>\n

Oh yes, I should also add that at this stage I am also focusing on living poets, rather than the likes of Sappho and Robert Browning, even though I have also featured more than one\u00a0 poem by both of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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