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True feast of versification
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MICHAEL Morpurgo, the Children's Laureate, made a simple but
important point at the StAnza Festival on Saturday when he said that
poetry is the most intense form of writing. If literature were food,
poetry would be foie gras, truffle oil, rich dark chocolate - rare
and delicious, but eat it all day every day and you'll soon have
indigestion.
The programmers of StAnza have learned that the secret to creating
a feast lies in variety as well as quality. This year the menu was
the most va...
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; CHICAGO, April 11 /U.S. Newswire/ -- In a newly released report, Poetry in America, the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago presents the results of an unprecedented study evaluating American attitudes toward poetry. Commissioned by the Poetry Foundation, publisher
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