Tom Paulin

Alice Oswald reads from A Sleepwalk on the Severn.; Tom Paulin reads from The Road to Inver.

This year marks the 80th birthday of one of the most distinguished publishing houses of our age. Faber & Faber was formed in 1929 with an inaugural list that included the finest poets of the day. To celebrate this legacy, Brighton Festival presents an exclusive Faber poetry double bill. Alice Oswald's second collection Dart won the T.S. Eliot prize in 2002. In conjunction with Faber's birthday year, Oswald presents two new works for 2009 - A Sleepwalk on the Severn , a multi-voiced poetic narrative set at night on the Severn Estuary; and Weeds and Wildflowers , a magical meeting of all-new Oswald works and the etchings of Jessica Greenman. With eight collections and two anthologies to his name, plus major critical works and translations, Tom Paulin is one of the most prolific and acclaimed poet / critics of his generation. His most recent collection, The Road to Inver (2004), combined original Paulin verse with a personal anthology of European poetry. (DeadGoodBooks)… (more)

Tom Paulin discusses The Secret Life of Poems: A Poetry Primer.

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When Tom Paulin chanced upon a poem by Yeats, he was suddenly struck by the subtlety of its workings: 'I began to imagine a critical account of his or any poet's work which jettisoned all earnest explication of the text and concentrated on sound, cadence, metre, rhyme and form.' The result is The Secret Life of Poems, part primer, part anthology and testament to Yeats' dictum that 'Words alone are good.' Join one of the most distinguished poet-critics of our time for a liberating encounter with some of the most celebrated poems in the English language. (DeadGoodBooks)… (more)