Ezra Pound

The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem by Matthew Hollis review – a classic laid bare

TS Eliot’s life and influences are meticulously investigated in this impressive account of artistic creation

Alex Clark

14, Dec, 2022 @11:00 AM

Poem of the week: The Horse and the Monkey by Mary Jean Chan

A sunny reflection on the obstacles a couple has overcome

Carol Rumens

22, Jul, 2019 @10:03 AM

Ezra Pound wrote the world’s single greatest poem, but is it wrong to love a fascist? | Ash Sarkar

The poet is just one of my problematic faves, along with The Simpsons and Vybz Kartel

Ash Sarkar

11, Aug, 2018 @8:00 AM

How to read poetry like a professor

Thomas Foster, an ex-literature professor and author, explains how to get the most out of poems while avoiding intimidation

Interview by Jake Nevins

20, Apr, 2018 @9:00 AM

Blackshirts, Beakers and boiling shellfish | Brief letters

Brief letters: CasaPound and Steve Pound MP | Lobsters and mussels | Beaker people and Cheddar Man | School mnemonics | The new LGBTQI+?

Letters

23, Feb, 2018 @4:31 PM

The Bughouse by Daniel Swift review – Ezra Pound, antisemitic and in the asylum

Pound’s arraignment for treason and spell in a psychiatric hospital is a great subject, so why write such an annoying book?

Mark Ford

09, Mar, 2017 @9:00 AM

The Bughouse: The Poetry, Politics and Madness of Ezra Pound – review

Daniel Swift’s account of the disgraced poet’s years in a mental hospital is enthralling but leaves us little wiser as to his state of mind

Robert McCrum

20, Feb, 2017 @11:00 AM

Poster poems: bus journeys

A communal space offering an ever-changing view of life passing by, buses have opened windows on to the world for many poets. Share your bus verses here

Billy Mills

14, Oct, 2016 @10:00 AM

Unesco lists Exeter Book among 'world's principal cultural artefacts'

Collection of poems and riddles from the 10th century, regarded as ‘foundation volume of English literature’, added to Memory of the World register

Alison Flood

22, Jun, 2016 @2:16 PM

Ezra Pound: Posthumous Cantos edited by Massimo Bacigalupo review – fresh insights into an epic masterpiece

The previously unpublished pages of Pound’s great poem highlight its visionary grandeur

Patrick McGuinness

27, Nov, 2015 @3:00 PM

Unseen Ezra Pound poem sold at auction

An unpublished pastiche sonnet written to friend Isabel Codrington, extolling her ‘rare worth’, fetches £7,500