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A year of hand-picked poems and commentaries from the Guardians Poem of the Week blog.

Carol 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 fascinated by the new, but her interest is instructed by the classic poems she has read. They make her ear demanding: when it hears that something, it perks up. She perks up.

A poem is a small (or large) machine made of words. Rumens partly agrees with Williams but she develops the conceit, seeing each poem as a more flexible instrument, a miniature neo-cortex, that super-connective, super-layered smartest device of the mammalian brain.

She tries to avoid poems built from kits with instruction manuals. She looks for surprises, and she surprises us.