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University of Cape Town's Poetry Web
A resource site for material relating to South and Southern African literature. Administered by Peter Horn.
http://www.uct.ac.za/projects/poetry/poetry.htm
A Total Absence of Critical Acumen
An article by South African poet-critic Peter Horn lamenting the South African reviewing scene--particularly the Southern African Review of Books.
http://www.uct.ac.za/projects/poetry/reviews/absence.htm
Selected Poems 1961-1994 by Patrick Cullinan
A review by Peter Horn.
http://www.uct.ac.za/projects/poetry/reviews/cullinan.htm
A Volcano in the Night of Oppression: Reflections on the Poetry of Mongane Wally Serote
An essay by Peter Horn on the poetry of South African poet Mongane Wally Serote.
http://www.uct.ac.za/projects/poetry/reviews/serote.htm
Seeker Magazine
A forward-looking literary magazine in search of the new, the unique and the bold.
http://www.seekermagazine.com
League of Canadian Poets
Home page of the League, with reviews of current poetry.
http://www.poets.ca
Electronic Poetry Review
Reviews of contemporary poetry.
http://www.poetry.org
Maqabane (comrades) poems by Tatamkhulu Afrika
A review by Peter Horn.
http://www.uct.ac.za/projects/poetry/reviews/mqabane.htm
Expansive Poetry & Music Online
A monthly Web journal of reviews, news, and excerpts from contemporary work in the Expansive Poetry movement. Also includes occasional reviews of music.
http://www.n2hos.com/acm/index.html
Life, love, death, and poetry in the work of Brian Patten
An essay on the work of Brian Patten, one of the Liverpool Poets.
http://www.english-literature.org/essays/patten.html
Poetry Magic
A resource centre for the theory and craft of writing poetry.
http://www.poetrymagic.co.uk
The Antigonish Review
A Canadian literary journal with poetry reviews.
http://www.stfx.ca/people/TAR/
earthstepper/the ocean is very shallow by Seitlhlamo Motsapi
A review by Peter Horn.
http://www.uct.ac.za/projects/poetry/reviews/motsapi.htm
The Rivers Which Connect Us to the Past by Peter Horn
A review by Andries Walter Oliphant.
http://www.uct.ac.za/projects/poetry/reviews/oliphant.htm
Welcome to the Thoughts of a Shark
A site about poetry and writing, including poems that I have writing, along with family pictures and other fun stuff.
http://www.angelfire.com/ky2/sharkfin
Other Places by Sarah Ruden
A review by Anette Horn.
http://www.uct.ac.za/projects/poetry/reviews/ruden.htm
Voices and Visions: 13 Great American Poets
A variety of media resources - including audio and video files - relating to 13 modern American poets: Bishop, Crane, Dickinson, Eliot, Frost, Hughes, Lowell, Moore, Plath, Pound, Stevens, Whitman and Williams.
http://www.learner.org/collections/multimedia/literature/vvseries/vvspot/
Canadian Women Poets: Two Reviews by E. Russell Smith
Reviews of Stephanie Bolster's White Stone: The Alice Poems and Louise Bernice Halfe's Blue Marrow.
http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/~ab297/reviews.html
Pregnant Poems by Anne F. Walker
A review by Bernadette Dyer.
http://www.mirror.org/cpa/dyer.html
Poetry Previews - Read Reviews and Chat About Poetry
A large site hosting a number of resources for poetry lovers. Includes a message board and chat room as well as reviews.
http://www.poetrypreviews.com
Rebels: Painters and Poets of the 1950s
An essay on the "Rebel Poets of the 1950s" by Steven Watson.
http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/rebels/
The Genealogy of Postmodernism
An essay by Albert Gelpi.
http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/gelpi.html
The Atlantic Monthly's Poetry Pages
An archive of interviews, readings, reviews and articles on poets and poetry - past and present.
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/poetry/poetpage.htm
Richmond Review
London-based review keeping an eye on British, European and American writing. Contains critical reviews and poetry.
http://www.richmondreview.co.uk
Aristotle's Poetics
Heavily annotated translation at the Perseus Project's website.
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/text?lookup=aristot.+poet.+1447a
Representative Poetry On-line
An on-line anthology covering the entire history of English poetry. A teaching resource hosted by the University of Toronto.
http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/rp/intro.html
An Introduction to "Lexical Lattice"
An analytical overview of a poem done in experimental hypertext form.
http://landow.stg.brown.edu/cpace/poetry/lattice/theory/Introduction.html
Standards: The International Journal of Multicultural Studies
A journal for the critical study of how cultural diversity impacts literature.
http://www.colorado.edu/journals/standards/
Against National Poetry Month As Such
Poet and critic Charles Bernstein explains why National Poetry Month is bad for poetry.
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/044106.html
Danny Yee's Book Reviews: Poetry
A collection of poetry reviews. Authors reviewed include Ursula K. Le Guin and Robert Graves.
http://dannyreviews.com/s/poetry.html
The Art of Disappearing by The Art of Disappearing Group
A review by Mark Antony Rossi. The authors are a group of women from the Czech Republic.
http://amrita.virtualave.net/revews04.htm
The Grounds of Criticism in Poetry
Excerpts from The Grounds of Criticism in Poetry by John Dennis, 1704.
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Bistro/8066/JohnDennis.html
Plagiarist.com Poetry Articles
Articles about poets, poems, and poetry in general. Includes book reviews, student guides, and articles on writing poetry.
http://www.plagiarist.com/articles/
The Art of English Poetry
Complete text of the work by Edward Bysshe, published 1702.
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/BysEngl.html
Those Who Lie Like Truth
Senior thesis comparing modern and Classical Latin confessional poetry.
http://www.blight.com/~bruise/
The Dingler Postmodern Poetry Critique
An attack on postmodern poetry, consisting mostly of real published examples.
http://thedingler.users.btopenworld.com/poetry.htm
Lost Poets of the Great War
A site featuring analyses of poetry from the First World War.
http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/LostPoets/
The Trouble With Poetry
An essay by Robert Jaunsen that looks at what is wrong with poetry today.
http://www.imagesofthedesert.com/poetry.htm
Criticizing the Poetry Slam by John Brady
An article that examines the "free-for-all" atmosphere of performance poetry.
http://eserver.org/bs/08/Brady.html
Can Poetry Matter? by Dana Gioia
A 1991 essay examining why poetry has vanished as a cultural force in America.
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/poetry/gioia/gioia.htm
Verticals of Troy: A Study of Trojan Mythography in Medieval English Literature
An examination of the Troy myth in medieval English literature.
http://individual.utoronto.ca/ullyot/verticals/index.htm
A Revival Meeting and its Missionaries: The Cowboy Poetry Gathering by Buck Ramsey
An introduction to cowboy poetry. Courtesy of the Western Folklife Center.
http://www.westernfolklife.org/p.revival.html
Lagniappe
An academic journal of poetry and poetry reviews. Also contains essays on poetics.
http://www.umit.maine.edu/~ben.friedlander/lagniappe.html
Metaphysical Reviews
Poetry reviews by New Age author Richard Fuller.
http://www.metarev.com/cat/poetry/
The Barcelona Review
An international review of contemporary writing.
http://www.barcelonareview.com/
Janus Head: Interdisciplinary Journal of Literature, Continental Philosophy , Phenomenological Psychology, and the Arts
A literary journal that places the emphasis on critical theory.
http://www.janushead.org/
Luminarium
One of the finest collections of classical literary criticism on the Internet (1350 to 1660 A.D.)
http://www.luminarium.org/lumina.htm
Sonnet Central
A large archive of sonnets and sonnet criticism from around the world.
http://www.sonnets.org/
DiversityBay: Book Reviews
Reviews of gay writing coming out of Australia.
http://members.tripod.com/~DiversityBay/books/page1.html
Callaloo
Journal of African and African-American writing containing original work by and critical studies of black writers worldwide.
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/callaloo/index.html
The Art Bin
An online arts journal coming out of Sweden.
http://art-bin.com/
American Literary Review
An academic journal that includes poetry reviews.
http://www.engl.unt.edu/alr/
Alienated.net
Contemporary poetry and poetics in a Php-Nuke environment.
http://www.alienated.net
Poetry Today Online: Book Store and Book Reviews
A collection of reviews by Jo Ann Miller.
http://www.poetrytodayonline.com/bookstore.html
BeeHive
A "hypertext hypermedia literary journal."
http://www.temporalimage.com/beehive/
Hamiltonian Essayal and Diarial Works
Poetry and some criticism, the result of Hamiltonian thought.
http://hamiltonious.virtualave.net/poetry/index.html
Poetry of the Eighties: Deconstructive Readings
An article on the poetry of the Eighties in Finland, using deconstructive close-reading. Also, three articles upon the subject in Finnish.
http://www.saunalahti.fi/immopek
The Morning After
An essay on today's poetry and how we feel about, the morning after National Poetry Month. At goodreports.net.
http://www.goodreports.net/poetry.htm
The Man with the Hoe: Labor and Society Debated
Edwin Markham's poem and the debate it sparked.
http://www.boondocksnet.com/markham/index.html
Babel
A progressive literary journal examining multicultural ideas and literary criticism.
http://www.towerofbabel.com
Pull of the Tides by Elizabeth A. Bernstein
A review by Mark Antony Rossi.
http://amrita.virtualave.net/revews02.htm
Online Literary Criticism Collection
The Internet Public Library's enormous database of literary criticism.
http://www.ipl.org/ref/litcrit/
Offcourse: A Literary Journey
An online literary journal featuring critical essays, poetry, and book reviews.
http://www.albany.edu/offcourse
The Romanticism of Charlotte Turner Smith: Plurality of Vision
A research Paper by C. Fernandez on the multicultural aspects of the romantic poetry of Charlotte Turner Smith.
http://prometheus.cc.emory.edu/panels/3D/C.Fernandez.html
berniE-Zine: Rants, Raves & Reviews
Book reviews and more at the home page of Bernadette "bernie" Geyer.
http://www.homestead.com/RantsRavesReviews
The Central California Poetry Journal
Regional journal with many essays and articles on poetry.
http://www.solopublications.com/journal.htm
Electric Acorn: The Journal of the Dublin Writers' Workshop
Online literary quarterly based in Dublin. Includes poetry, criticism and reviews.
http://www.dublinwriters.org
Contemporary Poetry Review
A British-based academic literary journal featuring articles, essays, literary criticism and book reviews of established international poets.
http://www.cprw.com
Critical Inquiry
An academic journal relating to critical analysis of the literary arts.
http://www2.uchicago.edu/jnl-crit-inq/main.html
Gip Plaster's Gay Scribe
A comprehensive listing of gay and lesbian publications.
http://www.gayscribe.com/listing/
IndiaStar Review of Books
A literary review site for Indian writing.
http://www.indiastar.com
Modern American Poetry
Critical and historical essays and syllabi on modern American Poetry. Many of the works relate to poems in the Oxford Anthology of Modern American Poetry.
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/
Oyster Boy Review
An independent publication with literary essays and book reviews.
http://www.levee67.com/obr
Whose New American Poetry?
Anthologizing in the nineties. An essay by Marjorie Perloff.
http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/authors/perloff/anth.html
Modern Poetry
Sudies of twentieth and twenty-first century poetry which focus on the "modernist" shift in style and subject matter.
http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/modern_poetry
It Is, As It's Elsewhere
Report by Lynette Abel of a class given by Eli Siegel on the meaning of poetry. In it, he discusses Carl Sandburg's "To a Contemporary Bunkshooter."
http://www.lynetteabel.org/Report-Sandburg.html
Poetry Book Review
Reviews of contemporary and classic English or English-language poetry collections.
http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/poetry_book_review/
Southern African Review of Books
A resource for those interested in the literary work and criticism of Southern African writers.
http://www.uni-ulm.de/~rturrell
Poetry Criticism of Daniele DiGiacomo
A selection of critical papers by Daniele DiGiacomo on poetry ranging from Old English to Sylvia Plath.
http://members.aol.com/danieledg1/mypapers.html
Monsoon: South Asian Literature and Culture
A resource for critical studies of South Asian writing and the South Asian Diaspora.
http://www.monsoonmag.com
Electronic Book Review
An online literary review.
http://www.altx.com/ebr/reviews/rev8/index.html
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