Cohort John F Deane and it matters that poetry

and it matters that poetry should be translated and move freely across the frontiers of time and space

Emerging from a rich bilingual culture

Mahmoud Shukair: Hemingway in Palestine

Neil Roberts on Plath and Hughes

translated by Adnan and Paula Haydar

Cohort John F Deane and it matters that poetryCohort, with its three poem introduction and book length sonnet sequence, draws inspiration from the sonnet's origins to update it for the Digital Age. Linked from its earliest days with legal proceedings and a modern psychology of conflicted love, the sonnet held together what wanted to fly apart. Petrarch miniaturized the standoff of forces in the oxymorons he used to characterize his divided emotions sick health and freezing fire. Acknowledging