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The poetry of dialogue

Cathy O’Neill explores how dialogue lies at the heart of poetry

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This article sets out to explore poetry’s dramatic quality by examining how voices within poems dispute and talk, positioning the reader as a listener, overhearing the conversation. It goes on to look at how poems themselves can enact a kind of dialogue across the centuries, as poets write back to poems of the past.

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