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Phorgotography, 3
vii this is enough(This is another instance of Facebook popping up a few photos at random, me finding myself responding more thoughtfully to them than Ι’d expected – ie being a bit floored by the coincidence – only not to … Continue reading
Close, 2
(A short disquisition on how sideboards do furnish a room, in which I’m thinking about types of closeness: how close we get to – or should approach – those lives we thought we might lead. How distant the writer might … Continue reading
Posted in current emanations, Makaronics
Tagged 'Poute' (Alexander Burgess), Ane Satire of the Three Estates, Asbestos Garage, Basil Bunting, Broughty Ferry, Burns, Chomei, Dundee, Flarf, Hugh MacDiarmid, James Easson, James Young Geddes, Michael Marra, Sir David Lindsay, Tenerife, The Burns Stanza, The Evening Telegraph, Virtual Sideboard, William McGonagall, Yang Lian
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The Third Shore (in three parts): 1
(To celebrate the publication of The Third Shore – and indeed to publicise this celebration of the act of translation – I’ll post my intro here in three parts over the next few days. This is an anthology of mutual … Continue reading
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Tagged Antony Dunn, Arthur Sze, C.D. Wright, Chinese poetry, Cove Park, Duo Duo, Eliot Weinberger, Fiona Sampson, Forrest Gander, George Szirtes, Hu Xudong, Julian Forrester, Linda France, Literature Across Frontiers, Mang Ke, Martin Orwin, Murray Edmond, Odia Ofeimun, Ouyang Jianghe, Pascale Petit, Poetry, Poetry Translation Centre, Polly Clark, Richard Gwyn, Robert Minhinnick, Scottish Poetry Library, Sean O'Brien, Tang Xiaodu, translation, Wang Xaoni, Xi Chuan, Xiao Kaiyou, Yan Li, Yang Lian, Yang Xiaobin, Yu Jian, Zang Di, Zhai Yongming, Zhang Er, Zhang Wei, Zhou Zan, Zoe Skoulding
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Sparrow-mumbling in China
As many of you will already know, April is now over, and with it, the solemn blend of duty and monosyllables that is NaPoWriMo. Why, then, am I still labouring toward a closure few will care enough about to read? … Continue reading
Posted in sparrow mumbling
Tagged Arthur Sze, Buddhism, Chinese poetry, Du Mu, Jiang Tao, Jiangzhen, Joachim Sartorius, Li Bai, Nanjing, NaPoWriMo, Ouyang Xiu, Penglai, Polly Clark, Sean O'Brien, Su Dongpo, Tang Xiaodu, Xi Chuan, Yang Lian, Yang Xiaobin, Yangzhou, Yu Jian, Zhai Yongming
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‘Ghost’ in Novi Sad (& Unique Mother Tongue)
Here’s a recording some kind person made of me reading the pome ‘Ghost’ in the Novi Sad Festival back in 2008. It was very well received, but I’ve forgotten who sent me this, so thanks and apologies! Listen to beyond … Continue reading
Posted in xenochronicity
Tagged Andy Croft, Arc Publications, Arjen Duincker, Arthur Sze, Øyvind Berg, Bernhard Widder, Claudia Keelan, Dan Coman, Durres, Elma van Haren, Emran Salahi, Erik Lindner, Georgi Gospodinov, Helene Gelens, Ide Hintze, Kristin Dimitrova, Linda France, Mark Robinson, Murray Edmond, Nadya Radulova, Novi Sad Festival, Odia Ofeimun, Smokestack Books, Thomas Wohlfart, Tone Hødnebø, VBV, Yang Lian
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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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unique mother tongue
(The following is a piece I’ve written for Unique Mother Tongue, a project for poets organised by the wonderful Chinese poet Yang Lian. It may or may not appear in this form on the UMT website (see ‘links’) but here it is … Continue reading
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