The Page
poetry, essays, ideas
"For better and worse, Paul Muldoon's giddiness mirrors the present moment in American poetry." James Longenbach • Slate
"Galway Kinnell likes to heel-and-toe it between life and death." David Kirby • The New York Times
"Generation after generation of poets have had confidence in their place undermined." Don Paterson talks to Nicholas Wroe • The Guardian
"The best love poems are those in which we can watch the poet being seduced by the poem." Lavinia Greenlaw • TLS
"The fusion of farce and the frightening is something Ted Hughes understood very well." Craig Raine • TLS
"It’s hard to make a poem these days that is absolutely clear and direct — if the poem is really to be equal to its era." Paul Muldoon talks to Charles McGrath • The New York Times Magazine
"A page, when he looks at it, becomes a playground." Peter Conrad on Paul Muldoon's Oxford lectures • The Observer
"The poets are pros now, like the software coders, and they function smoothly as nodes in the great network." Walter Kirn on Allen Ginsberg • The New York Times
"Poetry has the capacity to remind us of something we are forbidden to see." Adrienne Rich • The Guardian
"It is one of the many good effects of Fenton's book to make us wonder why we want to call these poems love poems." Adam Phillips • The Observer
"There is widespread resistance to the notion that a poem's ideas are a legitimate area of inquiry." D. H. Tracy • Poetry
" 'Don't ask, don't tell' is the motto under which much love poetry is written." James Fenton • The Guardian
"Paul Muldoon's peculiar brilliance is to avoid giving away a position." Robert Potts • The Sunday Telegraph
"They are instantly striking and, like the finest verse, mysteriously persistent in the mind and even the nerves." Derek Mahon on the poems of Samuel Beckett • TLS


New poems

Joel Brouwer Poetry

Hala Shurouf Words Without Borders



ARCHIVES


Previous archives:

2005

2004

Powered by Blogger

The Page aims to gather links to some of the Web's most interesting writing.

Reader suggestions for links, and other comments, are always welcome; send them to thepage.name ät hotmail dõt com

The Page is edited by John McAuliffe, Vincenz Serrano and, since September 2013, Evan Jones at the Centre for New Writing at the University of Manchester. It was founded in October 2004 by Andrew Johnston, who edited it until October 2009.
eXTReMe Tracker