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    When I mentioned Hope Mirrlees in the previous post it reminded me that I'd planned to re-up the review of her Collected Poems whi...

   The craze for anthologies in recent years has often seemed a market-lead phenomenon pandering to readers' increasingly short attentio...

 Beautiful fusion between Ethiopian and Indian musicians in this multi-textured jam - Ethiopian vocalist Gigi leads the way, with Bill Laswe...

  After a fairly lengthy break from downloading music from the blogosphere, the other day I checked out some of the 'sharity' blogs ...

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...