Saturday, 30 April 2011

dubrovnik: history and poetry

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                           Had a family holiday in Croatia during Easter, a remarkably beautiful country. We were staying on the Adriatic co...
Thursday, 14 April 2011

On Once Again Looking Into the Penguin Proust

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                                                  About a month ago I finally embarked on a re-reading of Proust's A la Recherche, some...
Wednesday, 13 April 2011

labyrinthitis

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A friend asked why I haven't posted more of my own poems on Ictus. Good point. This is one that appeared on Nth Position last year: ...

Eyewear

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I'm in Eyewear today, which I believe is the UK's most widely-read poetry blog (or blogzine, as I think Todd calls it). It's a ...
Sunday, 10 April 2011

swell maps etc

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 I was pleased to discover the other day that one of my fellow teachers at Hackney Community College is a former member of both Swell Maps...
Friday, 1 April 2011

sign poetry

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   Something beautiful and intriguing about this; and suggestive about poetry on all sorts of levels: the gestural and proximal aspects of ...
Thursday, 31 March 2011

Wolfing

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Just taken receipt of The Wolf 24 with both a poem and a Geoffrey Hill review of mine inside. I'm delighted to find myself included ami...
Thursday, 24 March 2011

The 'Intimidating Legacy of the Past': Hill and Enright

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                               One of the most interesting items in the latest PN Review (198, March-April) is an overview by Jeffrey Wain...
Wednesday, 23 March 2011

the canal

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Another short review up at 'BookGeeks', this time of Lee Rourke's novel The Canal: http://www.bookgeeks.co.uk/2011/03/20/the-c...
Saturday, 19 March 2011

Spring Blackbox

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The new number of the excellent Blackbox Manifold is now 'live' @: http://www.manifold.group.shef.ac.uk/ Any publication that j...