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Carol Ann Duffy has asked some of the brightest writers in the poetry world to select a poem that is meaningful—or has meant something—to them, and write a response to it. With up-and-coming poets alongside more established names, and original poems alongside the new works they've inspired, Answering Back promises to be a truly unique and insightful anthology.
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Kenneth Hardy
reviewed Answering Back on March 18, 2013
Answering Back
I'm not a big reader of poetry, but I'm
glad I read this, both for the opportunity to revisit poems by A.E. Housman, W.H. Auden, Christina Rossetti, Ben Jonson, and D.H. Lawrence (who knew he had a sense of humour?), but also to see how contemporary poets have responded to their predecessors. I particularly appreciated the 'piss-take' poems, the tongue-in-cheek response that Duffy gives to Kipling, that Tony Curtis gives to Allen Ginsberg ('I have seen the best minds of my generation destroyed by DIY'), and that Carol Rumens gives to Philip Larkin ('Not everybody's / childhood sucked: / There are some kiddies / Not up-fucked'). And it would be difficult not to be moved by the elegy Owen Sheers has written in response to John Donne's 'To his Mistress Going to Bed'. Not all the 'answers back' are successful, though: some are dull, others are pretentious - that's why I've given this 3 stars rather than 4.
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