Permissible and not mad to add two poetry books by Stephen Burt, The Poem is You and Belmont, to the For Later Shelf this week because I'm giddying up to see them at a WORD event at Scorpio Books on Thursday 26th January at 6pm.
Good poet (at least I think so after attending a reading last year - perhaps I'll know how to tell for sure after this event), Harvard Professor of Poetry and an engaging speaker, Burt will be in conversation with Fergus Barrowman from Victoria University Press.
I love poetry events - people are passionate about it so the questions tend to be on the intense side, and even better can spin out into wildly inappropriate statements of opinion. Somehow opinions on poetry are so much more interesting than opinions on non-fiction, which mostly centre on how much more the 'questioner' knows than the author.
"A lively discussion" is promised, but I'm hoping for a bit more than that.
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