History & The Arts
What is poetry?
...class tradition: Tony Harrison, Douglas Dunn and, latterly, Don Paterson and Paul Farley. Activity 3 Consider what has been said so far, the comments of Jackie Kay, Paul Muldoon and W.N. Herbert and your own views of what a poem might be. Write down your thoughts on the following remarks, by poets past and present, about what poetry is and how it works. If I feel...