Ictus

     Amid the weltering turmoil of recent days, now our greatest poet Geoffrey Hill has passed away: would it be too fanciful to supp...

  While England behaves like a spoilt obnoxious child who refuses to participate in interactions of mutual benefit both to themselves and ...

Rather than immersing us in a recognisable scenario fleshed out  by either a first- or third-person narrative voice, as in most realist no...

  Llubljana is a city poised between its two forefathers, Plecnik and Prešeren, whose respective principles of architecture and poetry defi...

 There is a buzz about Greek poetry at the moment: quick on the heels of the impressive Penned in the Margins anthology Futures: Poetry of...

  The new edition of PN Review is a particularly enthralling one, containing as it does a festschrift of critical appreciations celebrating...

                                                       A confluence in my reading - Jonathan Coe's biography Like a Fiery Elephant ...

  MHB in happier days    A little late for resolutions maybe but one of mine this year is to buy more books. Let me qualify this, altho...

  In one pixelated news-image of the aftermath of the recent Paris shootings, Bataclan concert-hall is shown as a charnel-house of bloody...

  If we agree that both phonetic immediacy and formal cohesion are both key elements of the poem in how it strikes the listener when read al...