Ictus

ictus [ik-tuhs] 1. In prosody the stress, beat or rythmical accent of a poem 2. In medicine a seizure, a stroke or the beat of the pulse

Saturday, 23 June 2012

Eye Focus

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 I have a poem up on Eyewear today, where Todd calls me a ' young British poet' - inaccurate but nice to hear...   The downside of ...
Friday, 22 June 2012

Bombing of Poems

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   This beautiful 'happening' - a dropping of thousands of poems on cities like Berlin to somehow (through a kind of reverse Butte...
Thursday, 14 June 2012

The Limits of Our Language Are the Limits of Our World

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Another word-cube from Tom Philips, this time with text from Wittgenstein, from his new exhibition at Flowers Gallery in Shoreditch. 
Monday, 11 June 2012

Francophile/Anglophobe

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                                                       Marvellous Jubilee-evading break in south-west France over the half-term exploring t...
Saturday, 2 June 2012

Colossal Rearrangements: Katerina Brac by Christopher Reid

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                                                                   A comment made by Todd Swift the other week at the end of a hyperbolic...
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Wednesday, 16 May 2012

The Night Keeper

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Hunger transfigured you, reduced you to your own bleak wraith. It animalised the pious among us, and enflamed savagery in the worst. My s...
Wednesday, 9 May 2012

Haunted Weather

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Best known for their emasculatingly satiric remoulding of 'Money (That's What I Want) ' and subsequently written-off as what D...
Saturday, 28 April 2012

Stop Your Sericulture

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 Check out this early manifestation of the Human League, showing how their sound (so different on record) came out of the mid-70s proto-Ind...
Sunday, 22 April 2012

Etching On Perspex

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Saw this today at the London Print Fair at the RA. Would you pay three grand for an interesting visual twist on Mallarme's Un Coup de D...
Friday, 20 April 2012

Stumped by the Form

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    Todd Swift wrote an interesting post recently about the new Penned in the Margins anthology Adventures in Form. A few people commented a...
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First book of poems 'Human Form' published in 2013 by Penned in the Margins. New book 'Incompletion' published April 2025 by Vole Books. Poems and reviews have appeared in PN Review, Poetry Review, Poetry London, Tears in the Fence, New Welsh Review and World Literature Today. Philosophy guide 'Who the Hell is Friedrich Nietzsche?' published in 2019. I'm a SEND teacher and Creative Writing tutor based in Hertfordshire, as well as being a PhD student at Royal Holloway, researching British modernist poetry.
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