Thursday, 9 August 2018

Celan: All Soul's

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Thursday, 26 July 2018

Review: Cenotaph South by Chris McCabe (Penned in the Margins 2016/17)

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   The notion of poetry’s immortality is one of its most abiding and validating tropes, originating in its earliest manifestations both as s...
Friday, 13 April 2018

From Metamorphosis to Molossus: Riley on Middleton

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Just came across Peter Riley on Christopher Middleton's Collected in the excellent Fortnightly Review , a book I reviewed myself but I f...
Wednesday, 21 February 2018

Embracing the Gap

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  The belated recognition of Eileen Myles, as celebrated in an interview with Emma Brockes in  The Guardian Review last weekend, seems ...
Wednesday, 14 February 2018

Pop-Poetry Will Eat Itself

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  A work-colleague asked recently "What kind of poetry do you write?" and I was stumped for an answer. Not only did no coherent ...
Wednesday, 31 January 2018

Mark E Smith 1957-2018

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Tuesday, 16 January 2018

Sleepwalking or Wake-Up Time?

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   Whereas in real terms 2017 was an especially momentous year for me, primarily in moving to a new house in Hertfordshire and experiencin...
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Saturday, 18 November 2017

Poet as TV Sleb

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Ovid Banished from Rome by JMW Turner     There's been a welcome spate of poetry programmes on the BBC this autumn, with documentari...
Sunday, 3 September 2017

Dialogue with Ian Pindar

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                                                                At risk of sounding ungracious or curmudgeonly, I don't get exci...
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Wednesday, 12 July 2017

Are You Sitting Comfortably? Well Don't

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          Charles Simic Sitting Down to Write    Sitting still for long enough - having both the will and the opportunity to sit ...