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Patterned and Paired
(This review appeared in the Spring 2016 Poetry London. This is a slightly longer version – by two bonus paragraphs – with a proofing error corrected. (Instead of the lemniscate itself, ‘∞’, we read ‘[insert infinity symbol]’, which is in … 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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From Mere Bellies to the Bad Shaman, 3
(If you felt the previous section jumped around a bit, you’ll love this, which tries to get from Nietzsche to Carol Ann Duffy in as few paragraphs as possible. Again the argument is trying to favour metaphor’s capacity for comparison … Continue reading
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Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Andrew Motion, Anti-Oedipus, Apollonian, Aristotle, Carol Ann Duffy, Christopher Isherwood, Coleridge, Creative Writing, Deterritorialisation and Reterritorialisation, Dionysian, Edwin Morgan, Félix Guattari, Fiona Samoson, Freud, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Gilles Deleuze, Gorbachov, Hesiod, Humphrey Carpenter, John Betjeman, Julian Jaynes, Keats, Lenin, Mallarmé, Nietzsche, Oedipalisation, Plato, Poetry, Putin, Richard Hugo, Rimbaud, Robert Lowell, Socrates, Stalin, Stephen Spender, Ted Hughes, The Birth of Tragedy, The Cooked and the Raw, The Poet Laureate, The Poetics, The Republic, W.B. Yeats, W.H. Auden, Wordsworth, Yeltsin
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Heroes and Homilies (2)
(This second section is where the homiletic theme appears in relation to Henryson. Parts of this draw on a review of Heaney’s Henryson, reproduced elsewhere on this blog, that I did for The Scottish Review of Books. But, as I’m … 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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