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Subscribe The Guardian - Back to home News Opinion Sport Culture Lifestyle Show caption Poetry The best recent poetry – review roundup The Trojan Women by Anne Carson with Rosanna Bruno; The Gododdin by Gillian Clarke; Hotel Raphael by Rachel Boast; American Mules by Martina Evans; pandemonium by Andrew McMillan Fiona Sampson Fri 14 May 2021 07.00 EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Even at its best, the poetic mainstream we call the lyric tradition can run the risk of appearing po-faced. So it’s a joy to come across a mistress of the art taking rumbustious pleasure in revisiting the matter of poetry itself. Anne Carson ’s new version of Euripides ’ The Trojan Women (Bloodaxe), with artist and cartoonist Rosanna Bruno, is resolutely subtitled A Comic ; and a graphic novel is exactly what it is. But of course the words are Carson’s. Simultaneously straight-talking and experimental, the Canadian has been reclaiming the classic...
https://www.tatler.com/article/emily-bronte-rare-handwritten-poems-1-million-the-honresfield-library-auction handwritten Emily Brontë poems set to fetch £1 million at auction The autograph verses are part of a literary treasure trove going under the hammer this summer By Hope Coke THE BRONTË SISTERS, PAINTED BY THEIR BROTHER, PATRICK BRANWELL BRONTË, IN 1834 VCG WILSON / CORBIS VIA GETTY IMAGES When it comes to England’s literary heritage, few figures command quite as much fascination as the Brontë sisters. Over two centuries on from their births, Charlotte (1816–1855), Emily (1818–1848), and Anne (1820–1849) remain celebrated figures, heralded for works like Jane Eyre , Wuthering Heights and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall , respectively.......