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Renga City (2)
(Part 1 of this article is on the StAnza blog here.) 2. Ha (Observing the rules and departing from them) i. As a set of principles Like any art form that has been practised for hundreds of years, renga is systematised to … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Jackson, Bloodaxe Books, Broughty Ferry, Dundee, Dundee renga, DURA, Erin Farley, EUP, Gail Low, Linda France, New Boots and Pantisocracies, North Shields, Renga, Smokestack press, StAnza, The Lit & Phil, The Wreck of the Fathership, Whaleback City
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Blurbalicious
The art of the poetry blurb is such a particular thing, and, as I’m asked to perform it with increasing frequency, I find myself wondering whether or not I do so from a sufficiently principled stance. Below are the most … Continue reading
Apologia pro Omnesia
(As Omnesia appears to be out, it’s time to begin whatever it is which that tautology ‘the immodest author’ does by way of product-promotion – the upfront-lash? Here then is the intro that appears in both volumes, and purports to … Continue reading
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Tagged Bloodaxe Books, Forked Tongue, News From Nowhere, Omnesia, The Cuírt Festival Galway, W.N. Herbert
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The Shock of Liberty
(This review of Hass and Williams appeared in the Summer issue of Poetry Review.) Robert Hass, The Apple Trees at Olema: New and Selected poems (Bloodaxe), 352pp, £15; C.K. Williams, Wait (Bloodaxe), 125pp, £9.95 There is an exhilaration about reading … Continue reading