Leah Fritz , British-based, American-born, Poet and Writer, is 80 today! That's wonderful news. Fritz has been an active, popular presence on the London poetry scene for long before I arrived here in 2003 - and was one of the first to welcome me when I arrived. She is funny, acerbic, brilliant, and an excellent judge of what makes a good poem. Her poetry collections include From Cookie to Witch Is an Old Story (1987) and Going, Going... (2007). Her works on feminism included Thinking Like A Woman (1975) and Dreamers & Dealers: An Intimate Appraisal of the Women's Movement (1980). Andrea Dworkin 's classic, Intercourse , is dedicated to Leah. Her New and Selected Poems is out from Salmon, in Ireland, in 2012, which is more cause for celebration. I offer the following poem of hers, below, as a gift to Eyewear 's readers (with thanks to poetry pf ). Whatever Sends the Music Into Time Whatever sends the music into time, not just in metre but through
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