Why poetry? Poetry is true in a false world
A monthly meditation on why we still need verse
Once a month, I am writing on New Grub Street about why poetry matters, why it is worthy of our attention, and why it might just be a lifeline in the troubled days our world is facing. In Part 1, I suggested that ‘poetry is slow in a fast world’, and celebrated the capacity of poets and poems to take stock of small but significant things that the rise o…
