Monday, 27 February 2012

Mming In the Undertow: Burnside Marginated

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As an experiment in downloading books onto my smartphone, I recently tried a sample of John Burnside's Selected Poems but the poem I rec...
Friday, 17 February 2012

A Rare Privilege

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  Just back from a restorative half-term break in Finland visiting friends, where the intense weather made England’s recent cold snap seem ...
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Thursday, 2 February 2012

szymborska obit

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/feb/02/wislawa-szymborska?newsfeed=true

Long Poem Update

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  Pleased to receive Long Poem Magazine 7 in the post this week, a handsome and elegant publication I was proud to find my longish piece ...
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Sunday, 22 January 2012

New Revenue Stream for Struggling Bards

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                                                               I was walking up Hackney Road one lunchtime last week when I was accosted b...
Friday, 6 January 2012

George Oppen/Johnny Weissmuller

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Monday, 2 January 2012

poetic mastermind?

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/b01974zd/?t=6m41s     Link to today's edition of Celebrity Mastermind featuring Simon Armitage answering quest...
Saturday, 31 December 2011

Sir Geoff

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  Chuffed to read in the Guardian today that in the New Year's Honours List Geoffrey Hill has been awarded a Knighthood for his 'ser...
Friday, 16 December 2011

'More than your subjective rot': Geoffrey Hill at the Barbican

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Goeffrey Hill reading at the Barbican last Sunday was exhilarating and wholly affirming of the longevity of hard-hitting, deeply-wrought p...
Thursday, 8 December 2011

long poem

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Like the Pist and Giths editors, I am also (and wholly coincidentally)linking to Long Poem Magazine on this site - futhermore I have the ult...