Friday, February 03, 2012

A delicate balance ...

... The mystery of poetry editing: from TS Eliot to John Burnside - Telegraph. (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.)


Often seen as the most personal and mysterious of literary forms – and therefore least likely to be guided by an outside hand – poetry is, in fact, strikingly indebted to invisible creators. What, we might ask, are the effects and risks of this little-understood practice on the nation’s verse?

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