The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem Julia Bird in both her themes and

in both her themes and experiments with form

In Amsterdam in 2002

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

The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem Julia Bird in both her themes andThe 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