The Poetry Resource » UK Poets http://www.poetryresource.org Since 2006 Mon, 03 May 2010 21:42:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Exhumus: poem for fallen Australian WWI heroes http://www.poetryresource.org/2009/05/11/133/ http://www.poetryresource.org/2009/05/11/133/#comments Mon, 11 May 2009 13:49:22 +0000 admin http://www.poetryresource.org/?p=133 I received the following email from Annie Kemp in the UK today, and it’s well worth passing on in full:

Today 5th May 2009, in a field in Fromelles, France forensic scientists are disinterring the bodies of fallen Australian heroes of WW1, there will never be ‘an unknown’ soldier, and I wrote these lines to commemorate this extraordinary event

Exhumus

Exhumator, ceremoniously you waken us
Gone so long, back in World War One
Sorrow, yes, but no forced air of solemnity
Take us up gently – bones of the unreturning,
Doomed but valiant knaves
Shelled hideously, intermingled in French mud.
Probe for mates, collate and light us
Twenty first century, DNA and type me
Photo, blog and net me
Kith and kin trace and verify me
Name, claim and honour my youth
Forget not, why we came here, back in World War One
Exhumator, when you’ve done,
Go against your trade and reinterre me.

By A. Kemp May 2009.

]]> http://www.poetryresource.org/2009/05/11/133/feed/ 0 Geoffrey Hill http://www.poetryresource.org/2008/01/26/geoffrey-hill/ http://www.poetryresource.org/2008/01/26/geoffrey-hill/#comments Sat, 26 Jan 2008 22:11:33 +0000 admin http://www.poetryresource.org/2008/01/26/geoffrey-hill/ 1. Complete Review
- basic bio
- reviews of most of Hill’s published works

2. poetrymagazines.co.uk
- excellent review of Hill’s ‘The Triumph of Love’ entitled ‘“Pardon?”: Our Problem with Difficulty (and Geoffrey Hill)’.

3. literaryhistory.com
- useful bibliography and some links

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- official website

2. Literary Heritage West Midlands

- brief biography

3. Poem Hunter

- selection of Adam Lindsay Gordon’s poems

]]> http://www.poetryresource.org/2007/06/09/adam-lindsay-gordon-2/feed/ 0 Paul Muldoon http://www.poetryresource.org/2006/10/28/paul-muldoon/ http://www.poetryresource.org/2006/10/28/paul-muldoon/#comments Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 admin 1. Paul Muldoon Official Site

- biography, recordings, news and much more

2. Faber and Faber

- Muldoon’s publisher
- short biography and list of publications in print with short descriptions

3. Financial Times

- interesting profile / interview with Muldoon

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- an excellent resource for students
- contains audio snippets, sample poems, theme comparison and a lot more

2. The Guardian

- a detailed review of Longley’s Collected Poems

]]> http://www.poetryresource.org/2006/10/14/michael-longley/feed/ 0 W.H. Davies http://www.poetryresource.org/2006/10/08/wh-davies/ http://www.poetryresource.org/2006/10/08/wh-davies/#comments Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 admin 1. Gathering the Jewels
- an excellent Welsh culture website
- contains scans of handwritten letters and proofs of some poems

2. BBC Wales
- a short biography

3. Project Gutenberg
- download Davies’ poetry volume ‘Foliage’

Note: W.H. is short for William Henry

Suggest a related website for this poet

]]> http://www.poetryresource.org/2006/10/08/wh-davies/feed/ 0 Stevie Smith http://www.poetryresource.org/2006/10/08/stevie-smith/ http://www.poetryresource.org/2006/10/08/stevie-smith/#comments Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 admin 1. steviesmith.org
- not an official site but contains a lot of useful information
- can be a little difficult to navigate

2. Strange Attractor
- another site dedicated to Smith
- contains a detailed biography

3. Poem Hunter
- view a number of Smith’s poems

Note: Stevie was born Florence Margaret Smith in 1902

]]> http://www.poetryresource.org/2006/10/08/stevie-smith/feed/ 0 Thomas Hardy http://www.poetryresource.org/2006/09/23/thomas-hardy/ http://www.poetryresource.org/2006/09/23/thomas-hardy/#comments Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 admin 1. The Guardian
- a fascinating profile of Hardy’s last years and regrets after his first wife’s death

2. The Thomas Hardy Association
- the poem of the month discussions are a goldmine for students in particular

3. Britain Express
- a useful biography of Hardy

]]> http://www.poetryresource.org/2006/09/23/thomas-hardy/feed/ 0 William Barnes http://www.poetryresource.org/2006/09/23/william-barnes/ http://www.poetryresource.org/2006/09/23/william-barnes/#comments Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 admin 1. BBC – Southhampton – Voices
- listen to some of Barnes’ poems being read

2. William Barnes Society
- very little info on the site at this stage but promises much more in the near future

3. Poem Hunter
- large number of Barnes’ poems for viewing

]]> http://www.poetryresource.org/2006/09/23/william-barnes/feed/ 0 Rudyard Kipling http://www.poetryresource.org/2006/09/11/rudyard-kipling/ http://www.poetryresource.org/2006/09/11/rudyard-kipling/#comments Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 admin 1. University of Newcastle
- main attraction on this page is Kipling’s complete works online

2. The Kipling Society
- an excellent biography and picture gallery
- the ‘Kipling File’ section is an excellent resource containing a number of essays and discussions about Kipling and his work

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