Sarah Holland-Batt @the_shb
Professor @qut | Poetry: THE JAGUAR (@UQPBooks), winner of @thestellaprize | #agedcarerc sarahhollandbatt.com Sydney Joined August 2012-
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The female of the species ❤️
The female of the species ❤️
Here's a beautiful story of an Irish postman called Mike Sheehan, who cycled up to 30 miles a day for 42 years delivering post around Goleen in West Cork. While other postmen opted for cars and motorbikes because of the steep mountainous terrain, Mike never changed. His son…
“You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem. You stand behind the words and speak them as your own.” —Helen Vendler buff.ly/3riYWOw
Helen Vendler, one of the leading poetry critics in the United States, with a reputation-making power that derived from her fine-grained, impassioned readings, expressed in crystalline prose in The New Yorker and other publications, has died at 90. nyti.ms/4bcsxun
“I’ve absorbed so much poetry over the years, that there are just hundreds and hundreds of lines in my mind. And when one of them floats up out of the mass, I know it’s telling me something.” —Helen Vendler buff.ly/3riYWOw
A tremendous loss. I loved Helen Vendler's mind. May the world keep reading her, and the poets she loved and wrote about so brilliantly. Vale to a true genius.
A tremendous loss. I loved Helen Vendler's mind. May the world keep reading her, and the poets she loved and wrote about so brilliantly. Vale to a true genius.
What an extraordinary, touching and generous exchange between Rita Dove and the dying Helen Vendler, a great critic whose loss we mourn.
Enjoying reading Sarah Holland-Batt (@the_shb) in the calm of Bargoonga Nganjin, North Fitzroy Library (@YarraLibraries)
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A truly incredible opportunity to spend time writing in one of the most incredible research institutions @Sydney_Uni @CPC_usyd 👇👇👇
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‘…. you learn more poems by heart every year from teaching them. They work on you then in a different way from the way they work on you when you’re reading them off the page. They live in you in different rhythms and come to mean more when you know them by heart.’ Helen Vendler
A tremendous loss. I loved Helen Vendler's mind. May the world keep reading her, and the poets she loved and wrote about so brilliantly. Vale to a true genius.
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