Paper Monitor
11:03 UK time, Wednesday, 27 January 2010
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
If there's a limit to the emotional reach of newspapers, it could perhaps be put down to their reliance on standard prose. But two papers today use poetry in an effort to get to readers' emotional core.
The Daily Mirror runs the poem Trout Fishing in memory of journalist Rupert Hamer, killed in Afghanistan this month while on assignment for sister paper the Sunday Mirror. was read at his funeral, held yesterday.
The Times showcases a from Christopher Reid's collection of poems in memory of his late wife. It has just won the Costa literary prize.
And staying with the Times, the paper has an exclusive of poet , who has been missing for 1,000 days.
Inside the T2 supplement, the paper's literary editor Erica Wagner writes about the tradition of commemorating news events through poetry. And just in case you thought this was a lot of effort for a one-off, there's a trail to a poetry special in this Saturday's Times, to include, yes, a wall-chart.
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