<p>This is Michael Donaghy's first collection of poetry in seven years.</p>

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Literature & Fiction

Michael Donaghy

Poetry

Picador

"Any act of communication begins with imagining oneself in the place of potential readers or listeners in order to anticipate one's effect. Agreed? It could be said, then, that the poet equals the reader, because poets are themselves readers in the tradition of poetry, because poetry is in itself a way of reading in that tradition, and because poets are the first (and sometimes, sadly, the only) readers and critics of what they've written. Conversely, reading is a form of ventriloquism: sensitive readers give themselves up to the poet for the duration of the poem."

Wallflowers: a Lecture on Poetry

Poetry Society

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Wallflowers: a Lecture on Poetry