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Origins, Grafts, Whispers
(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
New Cartographies for Old
(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
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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
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Sorley MacLean: A Life Revised
(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
Embodying delight (some formulae)
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
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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
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Waiting for the Voice
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
unglish for all!
(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
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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
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