Smart Devices: 52 Poems from The Guardian `Poem of the Week' Personal Finance Scarlett recites her daily affirmations

Scarlett recites her daily affirmations

and longing with inimitable humor and depth

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Smart Devices: 52 Poems from The Guardian `Poem of the Week' Personal Finance Scarlett recites her daily affirmationsCarol Rumens has been contributing `Poem of the Week to the Guardian for more than a dozen years. Do the maths: thats more than 624 blogs! No wonder she has a large and devoted following. Shes a poet reader, not an academic. She is in love with the new, but her love is instructed by the great poems she has read. They make her ear demanding: when it hears that something, it perks up. She perks up. She feels her way, agreeing with William Carlos