Ictus

   A few years ago I wrote a post about finding out a fellow-teacher at the London college I work at was a former member of post-punk band...

  Another good thing about Jeremy Corbyn is that - as revealed in today's Evening Standard - his favourite book is Joyce's Ulysses ...

"Here is something of a marvel: we now have far more poets than judges and connoisseurs of poetry. It is far easier to write poetry tha...

     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 ...