"Ted Hughes's wife, Sylvia Plath, famously killed herself. But what of his mistress, who four years later did the same?" 'Written out of history', The Guardian, 19 October 2006.

For the reading list: A Lover of Unreason: The Biography of Assia Wevill by Yehuda Koren and Eilat Negev. Published by Robson Books, price £20.00.

"But the novelties come thick and fast, beginning (so far as I was concerned) with the suggestion on page 10 that Dante and other poets he associated with in Florence as a young man might have given their visionary and dreamlike imaginings a boost with the stimulus of love-potions. These herbal stimulants, cannabis perhaps, may, it turns out later, be what Dante is referring to in the comparison, near the start of Paradiso, between his own “trans-human” experience and what Glaucus felt “on tasting of the herb” (nel gustar dell’erba) which made him into a sea-god. As Reynolds explains at greater length when she comes to the final vision of the Godhead, mystics did often use drugs of one kind or another in conjunction with fasting and meditation in their pursuit of visionary illumination. There is no reason, she argues, why Dante should not have done so too."
'Dante on drugs' by Peter Hainsworth, reviewing Dante: the poet, the political thinker, the man, Shaw (ed.), Tauris, 2006. Times Literary Supplement, 18 October 2006.

"Poetry is perennially on the ropes, a pensive, esoteric artform in a world absorbed by novelty and new media. But Poet Laureate Andrew Motion says it can resonate with all ages and an unlikely ambassador for the young is a certain Pete Doherty."
'Chatter and verse' by Sean Coughlan, BBC News Magazine, 9 October 2006.

Pete Doherty's favourite poets:
''Emily Dickinson? She's hardcore'', The Guardian, 3 October 2006.

'Robert Frost Poem Discovered Tucked Away in Book' by Andrea Seabrook, NPR, 1 October 2006.

'Ted Hughes, the domestic tyrant ' by David Smith. The Observer, 10 September 2006.

'British Library acquires 'outstanding' Coleridge family archive' by Richard Lea, Guardian Unlimited, 21 August 2006.

'Coleridge's descendants sell papers that reveal family's views on a maverick poet', by Louise Jury, The Independent, 21 August 2006.

'We've had enough of Greek myths' by Bernadine Evaristo. The Independent, 13 August 2006.

"The poetry establishment needs black and Asian writers to invigorate a tired old scene."

One life: Walt Whitman, a kosmos - new minisite from the Smithsonian.

'Fable of Flesh' by Hadara Bar-Nadav. AGNI Online, August 2006.

"In the past three decades, which magazines have made a substantial mark, a difference, a contribution?"

'Poésie sans frontières' by Michael Schmidt. The Guardian, 15 July 2006.

'Not Yet My Mother' by Owen Sheers. The Guardian, 24 June 2006.

'A Rose Tree' by Fleur Adcock. The Guardian, 17 June 2006.

Mina Loy links

poets.org entry.

'Mina Loy feature'. Jacket5, October 1988.

Becoming Mina Loy website.

Lunar Baedecker by Mina Loy (.doc file)

'Tarzan Workshop'. Jacket 30, July 2006.

Rilke's 'The Song of the Sea'. (First Science Poem of the Week).

'The Peace of Wild Things' by Wendell Berry. Poetry Foundation (pdf).

'Drowsing over The Arabian Nights' by John Kinsella on Poets.org

'Poetry in Practice: Creative Flow' by Mark McGuinness. Magma 34. (Edited online version).

'Atlantis: a Lost Sonnet' by Eavan Boland. The New Republic, 8 March 2006.