Friday, October 11, 2013

LONDON: One Hundred Years of the Don’ts


Tuesday, 22nd October, 2013, 7pm, £6 / £5 Poetry Society members
The Nightingale Room,
Keats House,
10 Keats Grove,
London
NW3 2RR
Box office 020 7420 9886 or email marketing@poetrysociety.org.uk

Ezra Pound’s ‘A Few Don’ts’ shaped modernist poetry and provided a handy toolkit for generations of poets. Don Share, the new editor of Poetry (Chicago) – where Pound’s injunctions first appeared in 1913 – joins the editor of Poetry Review, Maurice Riordan, to discuss whether poets need a new set of guiding principles.

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