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July 26, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Some Commentary on Some of The New Poetry

I started writing poems when I was about 12 or 13. And I only stopped when I was about 30. That break, it’s hard to remember the full timing now, lasted maybe four or five years – and there was probably a poem or two in there now and then. But for the last decade […]
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May 27, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: The Death of Music Journalism

the death of music journalism happened one day while I was still writing someone pronounced it dead – despite the various typos a quick fact-check revealed it was never actually alive – despite the claims from many that a pulse was charging through it right from when Gay Talese caught Frank Sinatra’s light sneeze in […]
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