Works by Bruce Whiteman
Spring 2026

What Is Actual Is Actual Only for One Time

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Winter 2026

“Allons travailler”

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Autumn 2025

Sharing the Tale: Or, So Many of Us Died for the Sake of Helen

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Summer 2025

The Sorrowful Fates of Lyric Poets

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Spring 2025

Expiring Appoggiatura Sighs

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Winter 2025

The Geography of the Imagination

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Autumn 2024

The True-Life Confessions of the Poet in Love

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Spring 2024

“One Day It Was Just No Longer There”

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Winter 2024

Achilles Hath the Mighty Hector Slain

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Summer 2023

Goofy, Like All Genuine Poets

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Spring 2023

“And I a Dot”

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Autumn 2022

Fit for Nothing but Literature

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Summer 2022

Never Expected! Always Fresh!

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Spring 2022

Ventriloquist and Chameleon

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Winter 2022

“Terrible Baudelaire”

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Autumn 2021

Singers and Songs

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Summer 2021

The Earth Moves If You Get It Right

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Spring 2021

Have Faith and Have No Fear

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Winter 2021

Dig Deep, Dig Hard

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Autumn 2020

A “Genius” and a “God”

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Summer 2020

A Savage Scrutiny

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Winter 2020

Vivet

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Autumn 2019

Mutatis Mutandis

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Summer 2019

The Poet of the Counting House

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Winter 2019

“The Last Survivor of the Old Culture”

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Autumn 2018

How Little Writing Rescues

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Summer 2018

“The Muses Taught Me Song Beyond Divine”

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Spring 2018

The Place of Rest from All You Have Undergone

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Winter 2018

“I who was once the favorite of the gods”

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Summer 2017

“Carpe You Imbecile!”

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Spring 2017

A Viking on the Loose from His Longboat

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Winter 2017

This Labyrinth of Numb Disorder

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Autumn 2016

A Northern Harp

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Summer 2016

Recepti Scriptores and Some Others

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Spring 2016

The Universe Is So Very Marvellous; or, “What you have done, Odysseus”

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Summer 2015

I Bite Rooks

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Spring 2015

Dream of Fair to Middling Poetry

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Autumn 2014

You Must Be Suffering from Poetry

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Summer 2014

I Suppose You to Be No Mean Reader, Since You Intend to Read Homer

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Winter 2014

Sappho; or, on Loss

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Summer 2013

Immiti Consumptus Morte Tibullus

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Autumn 2011

Epics Manqués

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Winter 2013

Unsettled Weather

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Autumn 2012

The Compassion, the Desire

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Spring 2012

The Skill of Honorable Deception

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Summer 2012

Fulfilment’s Desolate Attic: Philip Larkin’s Complete Poems

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