The Critic Doublethink
Don’t you know that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? George Orwell, 1984
Category: Poetry Rambling
I’ll Interrobang You!
!?!?!? You wouldn’t think people need punctuation in poetry, in fact most people seem to ignore it completely – except for the capitalisation of every line (what’s with that?! [That interrobang is for you...
To Break or Not to Break?
snap, crackle, pop Writers of all ages and all places are aware of line breaks. Sometimes we’re not aware of what line breaks are doing, exactly, but we definitely know they’re there! Completing a...
A Poet Cannot Just
Exist, Be God, Write Roland Barthes says that the Author is Dead in his essay of the same name. You may be horrified by the notion, but I promise you that it isn’t quite...
