Ictus

Summer has come to this: the sky invaded by parachutes of cloud; abrupt random downpours no sooner sheltered from than giving way to pre...

    I got round to watching Howl  on DVD last night. Wasn't expecting much, but in fact found it quite a well-made movie, interesting s...

                                                     Ian Pindar’s Constellations is the most intriguing new volume I’ve read this year f...

 Michael Glover    BowWow Shop 9 is up and running now at http://www.bowwowshop.org.uk , a strong and strident edition with an Ashbery in...

    I was introduced to this by my 10 year old son - luckily he's not yet at the stage where he actually wants me to say " Turn tha...

  Great interview with John Banville in the Guardian yesterday, full of rueful wisdom.   On the writing process: 'When you're writi...

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

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

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

                                                       Marvellous Jubilee-evading break in south-west France over the half-term exploring t...