Tag Archives: Poetry London

Origins, Grafts, Whispers

Posted on January 19, 2017 by Bill Herbert

(As will hopefully become apparent over the next few weeks, one of my ‘resolutions’ for January 2017 was to get my act together with the backlog of posts for this and my other blogs. At the end of the month … Continue reading →

Posted in reviews (some antique), xenochronicity | Tagged Donald Trump, Poetry London, Sarah Maguire, Sylvia Plath, The Poetry Translation Centre, W.H. Auden, xenochronicity | Leave a comment

New Cartographies for Old

Posted on February 4, 2016 by Bill Herbert

(An edited version of this review appeared in the Summer 2015 issue of Poetry London.) Sandeep Parmar, Eidolon (Shearsman); Sam Riviere, Kim Kardashian’s Wedding (Faber & Faber); Tony Williams, The Midlands (Nine Arches Press). These three collections in their different … Continue reading →

Posted in reviews (some antique) | Tagged Adrian Mitchell, Agamemnon, Anastasia, Brecht, Christopher Logue, Clytemnestra, Dada, Droste Effect, Edward Hopper, Eliot, Euripides, Flarf, Francis Bacon, Geoff Hettersley, George Clooney, H.D., Harpo Marx, Helen Mort, Helen of Troy, Hugh MacDiarmid, Ian McMillan, Jack Woolley, Jerry Springer, Kim Kardashian, Lettrism, Michael Symmons Roberts, Noam Chomsky, Pareidolia, Paul Farley, Poetry London, Pound, Richard Dadd, Rimbaud, Sam Riviere, Sandeep Parmar, Simon Armitage, Situationism, Surrealism, Ted Hughes, The Archers, The Beats, The Language Poets, The Ruin, Tony Harrison, Tony Williams, W.H. Auden, Whitman, William Hazlitt, Wordsworth | Leave a comment

Sorley MacLean: A Life Revised

Posted on January 7, 2013 by Bill Herbert

(I am reminded by news of the Spring issue of Poetry London to post this review of Sorley MacLean’s Collected Poems, written for their Autumn 2012 issue.) Somhairle MacGill-Eain/Sorley MacLean, Caoir Gheal Leumraich/White Leaping Flame: Collected Poems, ed. Christopher Whyte … Continue reading →

Posted in reviews (some antique) | Tagged Alasdair Mac Mhaighstir Alasdair, Beethoven, Christopher Whyte, Duncan Ban Macintyre, Emma Dymock, Hugh MacDiarmid, John Keats, Keith Douglas, Màiri Mhor nan Orain, Poetry, Poetry London, Scottish Gaelic, Sorley MacLean, Uilleam Ros | Leave a comment

Embodying delight (some formulae)

Posted on January 17, 2008 by Bill Herbert

Alan Gillis, Hawks and Doves, The Gallery Press, 79pp; Fiona Sampson, Common Prayer, Carcanet, 74pp; Lynne Wycherley, North Flight, Shoestring Press, 70pp. There are a number of now quite stately premisses on which we still rely when we come to … Continue reading →

Posted in reviews (some antique) | Tagged Alan Gillis, Charles Darwin, Colette Bryce, Derek Mahon, Douglas Dunn, Edwin Muir, Ezra Pound, Fiona Sampson, George Mackay Brown, Jen Hadfield, John Clare, Louis MacNiece, Lynne Wycherley, ohn Burnside, Paul Muldoon, Pauline Stainer, Poetry London, Rainer Maria Rilke, Seamus Heaney, Sinead Morrissey, W.B. Yeats, William Carlos Williams, William Wordsworth | Leave a comment

Waiting for the Voice

Posted on January 7, 2008 by Bill Herbert

Tiffany Atkinson, Kink and Particle (Seren), 64pp, £7.99; Tishani Doshi, Countries of the Body (Aark Arts), 64pp, £9.99; Roger Moulson, Waiting for the Night-Rowers (Enitharmon), 93pp, £7.95 First collections offer us a paradoxical reading experience. They are often the result … Continue reading →

Posted in reviews (some antique) | Tagged Beethoven, Colette Bryce, Hugh MacDiarmid, Kathryn Gray, Peter Redgrove, Poetry London, Polly Clark, Roger Moulson, Tiffany Atkinson, Tishani Doshi, W.S. Graham | Leave a comment

unglish for all!

Posted on March 29, 2007 by Bill Herbert

(This review of Kinsella, Hartley Williams and Lumsden appeared in Poetry London in (probably) Winter 2005. On reflection, it was a near-perfect triumvirate of writers to give me, as each of them illustrates some aspect of what I think of … Continue reading →

Posted in reviews (some antique) | Tagged Charles Bernstein, Chopin, Coleridge, Dan Dare, Harold Bloom, Hugh MacDiarmid, J.H. Prynne, John Ashbery, John Clare, John Clare or Robert Burns, John Hartley Williams, John Kinsella, Ken Smith, Lyn Hejinian, Marjorie Perloff, Peter Didsbury, Poetry London, Robert Burns, Roddy Lumsden, Ted Hughes, Tomaz Salamun, William Wordsworth, Yang Lian | Leave a comment

ministrations, legions, loneliness

Posted on March 26, 2007 by Bill Herbert

(This appeared in Poetry London in Spring 2006, and looks at Stewart Conn, David Harsent and Piotr Sommer.) These three poets, one Scots, one English, one Polish, respond in contrasting ways to their shared European context, its heritage and its … Continue reading →

Posted in reviews (some antique) | Tagged August Kleinzahler, Bach, David Harsent, Douglas Dunn, Euripides, Frank O’Hara, John Ashbery, Keith Douglas, Mozart, Piotr Sommer, Poetry London, Stewart Conn, William Dunbar | Leave a comment

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Origins, Grafts, Whispers

New Cartographies for Old

Sorley MacLean: A Life Revised

Embodying delight (some formulae)

Waiting for the Voice

unglish for all!

ministrations, legions, loneliness

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