It is inscribed with a tanka poem by Ishikawa Takuboku that reads ... and the death instinct (Thanatos). Eros can be found at the station’s north exit, whose immediate surroundings are ...

This is fragment 46, a poem invoking the start of spring ... exaltation of life and the fear of death [but] to produce a single affect: neither Eros nor Thanatos, but Life-Death, in a single thought, ...

He blamed his unfinished poem on ‘a person on business from Porlock’. Who was this arch-interrupter? Joanna Kavenna goes looking for the person from Porlock.

As a poet myself now, that fascination with the written word remains, although it has evolved from limericks to sonnets and free-verse love poems as well. I often hear from peers and students that ...

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