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Make Do

‘Is That You, Father?’: Poetry Readings and the Power of Tone and Voice | Matthew Clegg

 May 17, 2017 Make Do

Years ago, I had a dream in which I was giving a poetry reading at my old middle school, and Ted Hughes was in the audience. He was a kind of shade, or revenant, come back from the dead – like a ghost out of Homer. The reading I was giving was fairly conventional. I’d […]

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