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Silent Letters of the Alphabet (Newcastle/Bloodaxe Poetry)
Silent Letters of the Alphabet - Newcastle/Bloodaxe Poetry Author:Ruth Padel Ruth Padel's lectures link metaphor to silence and white space on a page. Equating a poem's music with its politics, she explores tone, register, and harmony, suggesting that how poems hold our ""attention"" is through ""tension"". Finally, she investigates what it means for poems that they are ""given to"" other people.