1. Which American poet has the middle names Weston and Loomis?
Ezra Pound
2. With whom did Tom Raworth set up the Goliard Press in 1965?
Barry Hall
3. Which poet wrote Fawn's Foster Mother?
Robinson Jeffers
4. Who wrote Pages?
Aram Saroyan
5. In which year was Gertrude Stein born?
1874
6. Who wrote Smokes?
Craig Dworkin
7. What term is used for collecting matchboxes?
Phillumeny
8. What do the initials of the famous poet H. D. stand for?
Hilda Doolittle
9. Which Philip Larkin poem starts with the line Suspended Lion Face?
Solar
10. Frank O’Hara’s poem Why I Am Not a Painter begins with
which line?
I am not a painter, I am a poet.
11. Reputedly, the longest poem known to man is about which King?
King Gesser
12. According to Frank Kuppner, exactly how many Second Best
Moments in Chinese History are there?
501
13. In which Shakespeare play does the line My love's more richer
than my tongue appear?
King Lear
14. What is a double acrostic?
Where the first letters of each line spell a word vertically as do the end letters
15. Who wrote Eunoia?
Christian Bok