Table of Contents

The Hidden Life of PoetsThe Poem is a Question: Keats, Negative Capability and UsJames Merrill: Formal RadicalCompendium in TimeAn Earnest Chestnut for Remembrance DayThe Search for Eloise RobinsonA Hell of an Underwriter: Three Insurance Men with a DifferenceBecause London Is Still a KaleidoscopeThere's No Place Like Home: The Poetry of Dorothy MolloyMen's Troubles: Seidel, Ashbery & ElliotTo Hull and Braque: Marching to the DrumbeatThese Fragments We Have Shored Against Our RuinGifts of Earth: Letters of Ted HughesThe Dylan Thomas QuestionMan of Jazz and Conscience: MacNeice's Autumn JournalBeauty and Meaning: Free the Word!By the Light of the Silvery Moon: Dowson, Schoenberg and the Birthof ModernismNow I'm a Real Boy: Poetry's Plagiarism ProblemThe LineMy Life in Typewriters

About the Author

Katy Evans-Bush’s poetry publications are Me and the Dead, Egg Printing Explained (Salt Publishing, 2008 & 2011) and Oscar & Henry (Rack Press, 2010). Her blog, Baroque in Hackney, was shortlisted for the George Orwell Prize for Political Writing in 2012. She lives in Stoke Newington, London.

Reviews

"Sharp, wry ... wears its considerable erudition lightly." Time Out "An incredibly astute, accessible and stylish critic. Poetry for her is not some arcane pursuit. It is a way of thinking and being in the world. I love her work." Suzanne Moore