“Poetry Makes Nothing Happen”

February 22nd, 2007 by Lim Lee Ping · 1,224 Views · No Comments

HB Squad ALERT! . gossip + snippets

Yesterday was WH Auden’s centenary - you know the guy whose poem, ‘Funeral Blues’, was read in the movie Four Weddings and a Funeral.

For more information about Auden, you can read:
The Guardian - Poet of the Century
The Auden Society
The Independent - The Scourge of a Sick England
The Telegraph - The Clearest Voice of the 20th Century

Image taken from the BBC News website.

For a selection of Auden’s titles available at our libraries:

W. H. Auden: poems / selected by John Fuller
London : Faber, 2005.
Call No.: 821.912 AUD
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W.H. Auden’s book of light verse / chosen by W.H. Auden ; preface by Edward Mendelson.
New York : New York Review Books, c2004.
Call No.: 821.0708 W
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