Strong Words

by Herbert, W. N.

• ISBN13: 9781852245153
• ISBN10: 1852245158
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-03-01
• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd

Table of Contents

A Note on the Text	10	(1)
Introduction: Writing into the Dark	11	(6)
A Retrospect	17	(9)
Ezra Pound
A General Introduction for my Work	26	(5)
W.B. Yeats
Tradition and the Individual Talent	31	(8)
T.S. Eliot
Observations on Poetry 1922-1925	39	(5)
Robert Graves
The Figure a Poem Makes	44	(3)
Robert Frost
General Aims and Theories	47	(5)
Hart Crane
Foreword from is 5	52	(2)
E.E. Cummings
Explaining 'A Rose is a Rose is a Rose'	54	(2)
Gertrude Stein
Adagia	56	(11)
Wallace Stevens
The Virgin and the Dynamo	67	(5)
W.H. Auden
A Statement	72	(2)
Louis MacNeice
A Theory of Scots Letters	74	(6)
Hugh MacDiarmid
The Poet's Point of View	80	(3)
Basil Bunting
On Measure -- Statement For Cid Corman	83	(4)
William Carlos Williams
A Statement For Poetry	87	(5)
Louis Zukofsky
Projective Verse	92	(8)
Charles Olson
To Define	100	(2)
Robert Creeley
`I believe poets are instruments'	102	(1)
Denise Levertov
`I tend to write in a patterned arrangement'	103	(1)
Marianne Moore
Letter to Miss Pierson	104	(2)
Elizabeth Bishop
On 'Skunk Hour'	106	(4)
Robert Lowell
Answers to Questions	110	(3)
Randall Jarrell
`Poetry is like a man'	113	(2)
Keith Douglas
Notes on the Art of Poetry	115	(2)
Dylan Thomas
Notes on a Poetry of Release	117	(5)
W.S. Graham
Self Portrait	122	(5)
Patrick Kavanagh
How to be a Bad Writer	127	(2)
Langston Hughes
`When the Mode of the Music Changes the Walls of the City Shake'	129	(3)
Allen Ginsberg
Personism: A Manifesto	132	(3)
Frank O'Hara
`How You Sound??'	135	(2)
Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones)
Poetry is Not a Luxury	137	(4)
Audre Lorde
Poetry and Experience: Statement at a Poetry Reading	141	(2)
Adrienne Rich
Writing a Poem	143	(2)
Thom Gunn
A Comparison	145	(3)
Sylvia Plath
My Muse	148	(2)
Stevie Smith
Statement	150	(2)
Philip Larkin
Words and Experience	152	(6)
Ted Hughes
Craft and Technique	158	(3)
Seamus Heaney
`Poetry is all I write'	161	(2)
Tony Harrison
A Difficult Simple Art	163	(4)
Douglas Dunn
In Conversation	167	(5)
Derek Walcott
Go Figure	172	(1)
Paul Muldoon
Tracking The Wind Dog	173	(4)
Tom Paulin
Babylonish Dialects	177	(4)
Craig Raine
A Few Words for the New Century	181	(3)
Anne Stevenson
Contexts: An Essay on Intentions	184	(4)
C.K. Williams
A Question of Voice	188	(2)
Elaine Feinstein
Roof of Fireflies	190	(5)
Edwin Morgan
From the Introduction to Radical Renfrew	195	(3)
Tom Leonard
Not Quite a Statement	198	(3)
Fleur Adcock
The Instrument	201	(2)
Les Murray
Almost a Dialogue with Lyn Hejinian: Quotations and Phantom Limbs...	203	(5)
John Kinsella
War, Poetry, the Child	208	(3)
U.A. Fanthorpe
`The poetry I feel closest to'	211	(2)
Grace Nichols
Voices	213	(2)
Brendan Kennelly
The Wrong Way	215	(4)
Eavan Boland
And Cry Jesus to the Mice	219	(3)
Medbh McGuckian
Poetry's Concern	222	(4)
Bernard O'Donoghue
Common and Peculiar	226	(3)
David Constantine
Leaping Versus Blabbing	229	(4)
Hugo Williams
Yes and No	233	(1)
Andrew Motion
The Other	234	(2)
Ciaran Carson
Proceedings in Palmersville	236	(5)
Sean O'Brien
`I happen to believe'	241	(2)
Michael Hofmann
My Report Card	243	(2)
Michael Donaghy
Racoons -- or, Can Art Be Evil?	245	(3)
Selima Hill
Poetry Makes Nothing Happen	248	(4)
Sarah Maguire
Re-Writing the Good Book	252	(4)
Simon Armitage
Strictures	256	(3)
Glyn Maxwell
Strong Words	259	(3)
John Burnside
Cosmopolibackofbeyondism	262	(3)
Robert Crawford
Whose Coat is that Jacket? Whose Hat is that Cap?	265	(5)
Gwyneth Lewis
Further Adventures in the Skin Trade	270	(4)
Fred D'Aguiar
Interior with Extension Cord	274	(3)
Lavinia Greenlaw
Holding Fast -- Truth and Change in Poetry	277	(5)
Kathleen Jamie
Aphorisms	282	(5)
Don Paterson
A Manifesto	287	(2)
John Hartley Williams
Acknowledgments and Further Reading	289	(14)
Index	303