The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem Julia Bird The present volume of nearly

The present volume of nearly 300 poems seeks to redress the balance

seems like the obvious pick to bring the new Neruda into English

‘From the first poem’s quiet lyricism to the final poem’s dazzling thirty sentences

in both her themes and experiments with form

A rallying cry builds steadily through the book culminating in a moving closing ode to the virtue of sincerity

The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem Julia Bird The present volume of nearlyThe prose poem has proven one of the most innovative and versatile poetic forms of recent years. In the century and a half since Charles Baudelaire, Emma Lazarus, Oscar Wilde and Ivan Turgenev spread the notion of a new kind of poetry, this 'genre with an oxymoron for a name' has attracted and beguiled many of our most beloved writers. Yet it has long remained a hidden territory and even now, this peculiarly rich and expansive form can strike many