His poems often present a grumpy, intolerant, self-pitying persona at odds with the modern world. The posthumous publication of Larkin’s letters revealed him to be something uglier than a garden ...
Speakers, including poets and academics, at a seminar said on Wednesday that readers needed political understanding to read poet Rudra Mohammad Shahidullah’s poems.
On this particular track, she also sings the entire song with him, taking the octave above Cohen’s brooding lower register. “Alexandra Leaving” is partly based on a poem called “The God ...