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Poetry Reviews: December 2012
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Monday, 31 December 2012. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). This blog contains reviews of contemporary poetry. If you have anything to say about the poetry under review, please feel free comment. Both short and long comments are welcome and if you have a blog of your own and would like me to read it, just paste in the link! View my complete profile. From the Fishhouse - an audio archive of emerging US poets. Poetry Archive (recordings of poets reading their work). A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford. As It Should Be.
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Poetry Reviews: June 2012
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Friday, 1 June 2012. The Grass is Singing. I believe that there is a political crisis going on in South Africa. A populist politician, with questionable personal morals, is president. There are attacks on the freedom of the press and artistic expression - legislative ones from the executive, literal ones from individuals with no formal connection to the government acting. Out of this context, I welcome a poet with a remarkably direct and personal voice, who writes about life in South Africa as it is now,...
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Poetry Reviews: January 2012
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Tuesday, 31 January 2012. The best books in 2011 - the ones you need - were translations, and both were published by Carcanet: John Ashbery's translation of. And Jane Draycott's welcome rendering of the deeply moving medieval poem,. Which, in the voice of a parent, describes his/her dead infant daughter transfigured in heaven. Of the two, the most important is. After all can be read in the original Middle English with only a little effort). Salt's Best Poems of 2011. The Salt Book of Younger Poets. Both ...
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Poetry Reviews: Odi Barbare by Geoffrey Hill
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Friday, 20 July 2012. Odi Barbare by Geoffrey Hill. The New Pelican Guide to English Literature (1995). Martin Dodsworth - in his essay on Ted Hughes and Geoffrey Hill - writes:. Hill is difficult because he says so many things at once. It's interesting to reflect on the continuity this suggests between Hill's work before. I'd strongly suggest that, if you like poetry, you should give this collection (which is in effect an extended poem in many sections) a go. You will be richly rewarded if you do. This ...
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Wednesday 27th February 2013: Launch of Flowering Skullcap
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Launch: 8th April 2015: The Architecture of Chance. Friday 19th April 2013: Jaap Blonk. Saturday 30th March 2013: Mini-fest Destiny: Farewell to Project Slogan. The Next Big Thing. Wednesday 27th February 2013: Launch of Flowering Skullcap. Wednesday 27th February 2013: Launch of Flowering Skullcap. Please join us for the launch of David Wheatley's new Wurm Press chapbook, Flowering Skullcap. Wednesday 27th February 2013, 6.30pm, Project Slogan. 48 Langstane Place, Aberdeen. By Quick Logical Solutions.
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Poetry Reviews: October 2011
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Sunday, 23 October 2011. Eagle-Eyed Imaginarium: A review of Arguing with Malarchy by Carola Luther. The style has the demotic intonations of early Simon Armitage, without its social particularity (but with just as many internal rhymes and half rhymes):. For a fuck in the dark, I received instruction. On making the break, on the spur, double quick. Aged gardeners, with their pots and hats and secret. Pockets full of dust. Labels: Arguing with Malarchy. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile.
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The Half-Full Jug: March 2011
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Sunday, March 6, 2011. I have first of all to say that I am to an extent sick of being ironised, even if it all takes place in my head! You will find no elegance or pizzazz here in the style of the writing, because that is long superfluous. Why write at all, so, when there is no fun in the style of doing it? But the Imagination has a stake in the Liberty of the Will, and so demands effective Civil Liberty. Whether it should get it is an interesting question. Want shot of it, compulsorily? But I think I d...
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Poetry Reviews: May 2012
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Wednesday, 30 May 2012. So Bad, it's Good (well, almost). I'm a big fan of Alice Oswald's work. It is imaginative and lively with lots of verbal energy and passion. Her subject is often nature leading some people to compare her poetry to Ted Hughes's (imho Dylan Thomas could be another correlative because she seems to be able to inhabit the dream lives of lots of other characters). Her attractively produced collection in Faber,. In the mean time, don't buy this one. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). A Disused ...
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Poetry Reviews: By Fits and Starts: A Beginners review of 'The Reasoner' by Jeffrey Wainwright
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Wednesday, 17 October 2012. By Fits and Starts: A Beginners review of 'The Reasoner' by Jeffrey Wainwright. Jeffrey Wainwright's new collection, The Reasoner, is a study of epistemology and ontology, of how we know and the relationship between knowing and being. It makes these fundamental concerns concrete through the voice of 'the reasoner' in a series of 95 mainly short poems. The crucial kitchen-drawer always has. The wrong batteries, withered elastic bands. Nothing rich like persimmon or lavender.
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Poetry Reviews: October 2012
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Wednesday, 17 October 2012. By Fits and Starts: A Beginners review of 'The Reasoner' by Jeffrey Wainwright. Jeffrey Wainwright's new collection, The Reasoner, is a study of epistemology and ontology, of how we know and the relationship between knowing and being. It makes these fundamental concerns concrete through the voice of 'the reasoner' in a series of 95 mainly short poems. The crucial kitchen-drawer always has. The wrong batteries, withered elastic bands. Nothing rich like persimmon or lavender.
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