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‘We should stop stirring Walter Benjamin’s intricately brilliant but almost entirely false theories into theoretical blancmange’

In that coffee shop

“A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.”

‘Heaney never seems more Heaneyish, or Muldoon more Muldoonish, than when they appear side by side.’

‘At least I had my heart broken by a professional’

Cover to Cover

Land, Women and Gold

Philip Larkin’s literary executor recalls passing on This Be the Verse

Dreaming and Poetry

‘It would be better if you could wash your hair with poetry, or with glowing dead poetry goo made by juicing living dead poets: that would be something!’

How you played the game

“Negative reviews help poetry.”

Drinking, driving and longing

Jazra Khaleed: ‘Greek society has the blood of immigrants on its hands’

“When you are a writer, you are a patriot of your apartment,” Zagajewski said.

Tip to conquer American poetry: ‘Your friends are really just contacts, and you have to think of them that way. If dropping their name isn’t worth anything, you may have to ditch them’

Molly Young: Ducatis, ‘muffdiving’ and Seidel the rake poet

Approximately 86,000,000 poems will be published in the 21st century, so will the truly titanic poets fall victim to this new math of poetry?

(‘the poetry of self-promotion’)

‘In order to write a Nabati camel poem properly, you need to have not only seen one of the animals, but to have milked one, scrubbed one, maybe had one spit in your face…’