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The Secret Life Of Poems: A Poetry Primer By Tom Paulin

Posted at 4:12PM Wednesday 19 Mar 2008



The Secret Life Of Poems: A Poetry Primer By
Tom Paulin
ISBN: 9780571226344

Tom Paulin's new book is the latest in a series of bluffer's guides to poetry which have recently fallen from the press, one of them, I must confess, by myself. Paulin has a passion for language and a marvellously sensitive ear for its textures and cadences. In fact, he reads so closely, slowing a poem down to a sort of surreal slow-motion, that it becomes in his hands a strange cacophony of plosive, guttural and sibilant noises.

Guardian review




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