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

Thursday, 30 May 2013

Poetry Gender Audit

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  The gender audit on the five main poetry-publishing houses done recently by Fiona Moore on her Displacement blog makes for essential read...
Thursday, 23 May 2013

Unexpected Body Combinations

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 I was immensely pleased to come across a first review of Human Form this week in the Los Angeles Review of Books, part of an excellently-w...
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Saturday, 18 May 2013

Poetry in Translation

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                                                  Janos Pilinszky   If you didn't catch this Radio 4 programme presented by Daljit ...
Sunday, 12 May 2013

Electronic Voice Phenomena

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  Fascinating event coming up in East London's Rich Mix next weekend when Electronic Voice Phenomenon , the mixed-media performance cura...
Sunday, 5 May 2013

Whodunnit

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    I don't usually read crime-fiction or thrillers but I can recommend Death Comes for the Poets by John Hartley-Williams and Mat...
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Sunday, 21 April 2013

Another Reading/Daft Punk

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  So another reading to let you know about, this one on at 7 pm on Tuesday 23rd at Beaconsfield Library with Claire Trevien and Sarah Hesket...
Sunday, 14 April 2013

Neruda/Pinochet/Thatcher

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    Was anyone as astounded as me at the link between Margaret Thatcher, via her "friend and inspiration" the murderous dictato...
Saturday, 13 April 2013

Autism and Music

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Fascinating interview on Saturday Live this morning with the conductor John Lubbock, who brings his Orchestra of St John into schools and ot...
Wednesday, 10 April 2013

Death of a Former Tyrant

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  Impromptu street-poetry at Brixton Fridge (love that dangling A), spotted by my brother in the context of a sizeable street-party on Mon...
Tuesday, 9 April 2013

The Philosopher and the General

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"The general was unable to contain his almost inarticulate fury any longer.He could only scream 'Muera la inteligencia! Viva la mue...
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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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