Stress Fractures: Essays on Poetry Gwyneth Barber Wood this is a novel about

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originally reviewed in Banipal issues

Raphael Cohen

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Stress Fractures: Essays on Poetry Gwyneth Barber Wood this is a novel aboutWhere can the poem go in the age of the supercomputer? Why is poetry taught so badly at school? What do Wordsworth, Byron and British rapper Roots Manuva have in common? Would Emily Dickinson have watched vampire series Twilight? Is slam poetry any good, and what is postavant anyway? These are just some of the questions posed in Stress Fractures, a new and wide ranging collection of essays on the future of poetry. Good news for poetry. Richard