Poetry is a language with a shape - Michael Schmidt

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Poetry is a language with a shape

Michael Schmidt

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About Michael Schmidt

Michael Schmidt (born 2 March 1947 in Mexico City) is a Mexican-British poet, author and scholar. He is currently Professor of Poetry at Glasgow University.

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The reader does not need a technical vocabulary to read poetry, only a voice in the head or out loud which can deliver the sounds.

A living poem can energise another poem at five hundred years distance, or across the other side of the world.

What matters in poetry is form, how words work together, the sounds and silences their combinations make. The ordered effects they produce on the attentive hearer.