Here, for Valentine's Day, are poems that represent extreme, opposite notions of love. One-word labels for them might be innocence and decadence. Both qualities can generate great intensity, as ...
It seems fair enough that some licence is granted when rendering poems in a different language, but dropping entire cantos is surely taking things too far Perhaps it’s down to his wonderfully ...
Osvaldo Golijov is a new breed of contemporary composer, a spiritual heir to the poet Pablo Neruda. In his essay 'On Impure Poetry', Neruda calls for 'a poetry as impure as old clothes, as a body with ...