Tuesday, 23 September 2014

Charlotte Mew

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Came across this by accident on an interesting website: http://historyofmentalhealth.com/2014/03/23/1928-charlotte-mew/ Serendipitous...
Sunday, 14 September 2014

Old is the New New

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   The PBS Next Generation list of "the most exciting new poets" is extraordinary in that there is nothing new about it. Every poe...
Saturday, 6 September 2014

Optic Nerve

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   Pubs and poets go together like the yin and yang of the known universe, inseparable and insoluble. In every pub in the UK there is a poe...
Thursday, 4 September 2014

Anne Carson: Nox

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Tuesday, 19 August 2014

In Their Own Words

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    If you missed it here's the first part of an interesting new BBC4 series comprised of old BBC footage of 20th Century poets edited t...
Monday, 18 August 2014

'Measuring the Dead': McCabe's In the Catacombs

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    Last summer I participated in the walk around West Norwood Cemetery which was the culmination of Chris McCabe's project reflecting ...
Thursday, 14 August 2014

Coffee With Joyce

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  As part of a camping trip to Istria in northern Croatia, I discovered this tribute to my favourite writer James Joyce at Cafe Uliks (Cr...
Friday, 18 July 2014

Holiday Reading

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        Karthika Nair                                    The heatwave this week has coincided with the start of my summer holiday so I...
Thursday, 17 July 2014

Frank O'Hara: Having a Coke With You

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Monday, 7 July 2014

The Fascination of What's Difficult

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   One of the upshots of the recent, tiresome Forward-orchestrated Paxman mini-controversy was the news that UK poetry book-sales have fal...