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Litrefs Articles: Show and Tell - Waterman and Heaney

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Literary articles by Tim Love. Friday, 6 February 2015. Show and Tell - Waterman and Heaney. In "Tonight the Summer's Over" from Rory Waterman's "Tonight the Summer's Over", canoers see a heron burst from the bank and disappear round the bend. The canoers think " We were happy - weren't we - because each bend was blind. Having initially not seen the heron, the canoers continue their imprecise, indirect observations as they try to follow it -. Sparrows and whatnot cheeped. Cows watched us ignoring them.

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Litrefs Articles: Poetic Voice

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Literary articles by Tim Love. Friday, 24 July 2015. Polly Clark wrote " Anyone who has taken a creative writing course knows about ‘voice’. This is the elusive, essential, treasured characteristic of a poem on the page, the one thing we must have, as a poet above all else. We talk about ‘finding our voice’ and we know when someone has found it and when they haven’t. And in "The Writer's Voice" Al Alvarez wrote that " a writer doesn't properly begin until he has a voice of his own. But putative authentic...

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Litrefs Reviews: "Introspection and Contemporary Poetry" by Alan Williamson (Harvard University Press, 1984)

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Literary reviews by Tim Love. Warning: Rather than reviews, these are often notes in preparation for reviews that were never finished, or pleas for help with understanding pieces. See Litref Reviews - a rationale. Wednesday, 5 August 2015. Introspection and Contemporary Poetry" by Alan Williamson (Harvard University Press, 1984). P1) " showing how contemporary styles, especially the more drastic and experimental ones, attempt a kind of equivalent for consciousness. P65), which leads onto Snyder. P93) " H...

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Litrefs Articles: William Blake

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Literary articles by Tim Love. Monday, 1 June 2015. I only recently found out that an original version of Blake's The Tyger. Is in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge - metres from where I work. It's one of the most anthologised poems. If The Tyger. When students study Blake in more depth, they discover that he intended the pictures and poems to be seen together. The pictures add new meanings to the words, and don't always support them. Moreover, when the poems from Songs of Innocence and Experience. Eaves...

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Litrefs Articles: Art and literary narration

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Literary articles by Tim Love. Wednesday, 18 February 2015. Art and literary narration. The Bayeux Tapestry is a famous example of how to display a narrative graphically. The method translates easily to prose (and movies). But there are other ways. Here I'll pursue a particular thread of narrative development in art from the medieval to the 20th century, showing how the various ways might be used in literature. Just as a Simultanbild deforms a narrative, reconstructing it so that some common features (e&...

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Litrefs Reviews: "Don't try this at home" by Angela Readman (and other stories, 2015)

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Literary reviews by Tim Love. Warning: Rather than reviews, these are often notes in preparation for reviews that were never finished, or pleas for help with understanding pieces. See Litref Reviews - a rationale. Saturday, 18 July 2015. Don't try this at home" by Angela Readman (and other stories, 2015). Surviving Sainthood" was a good read too - the persona's brain-dead sister is thought by the mother to be a miracle worker. P48) Girls are attracted. In "Birds without wings" dad gives the persona a not...

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Litrefs Reviews: "Don Paterson" by Natalie Pollard (ed) (Edinburgh University Press, 2014)

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Literary reviews by Tim Love. Warning: Rather than reviews, these are often notes in preparation for reviews that were never finished, or pleas for help with understanding pieces. See Litref Reviews - a rationale. Saturday, 1 August 2015. Don Paterson" by Natalie Pollard (ed) (Edinburgh University Press, 2014). He is scathing about poetry workshops; good poems arise only from an 'urgent impulse in the mind of the poet'. Paterson's larger claim is that the operation of the phonestheme is not confined to s...

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Litrefs Reviews: "How do you spell Bl...gh?" by Ian Robinson (Redbeck Press, 2002)

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Literary reviews by Tim Love. Warning: Rather than reviews, these are often notes in preparation for reviews that were never finished, or pleas for help with understanding pieces. See Litref Reviews - a rationale. Tuesday, 25 March 2003. How do you spell Bl.gh? By Ian Robinson (Redbeck Press, 2002). As mainstream markets dry up where can short-story writers go? Into genres such as Horror? Or follow the excellent David Almond into children's fiction? Edward's not unique. All the main characters are ma...

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Litrefs Reviews: "femenismo" by Joanne Limburg (Bloodaxe, 2000)

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Literary reviews by Tim Love. Warning: Rather than reviews, these are often notes in preparation for reviews that were never finished, or pleas for help with understanding pieces. See Litref Reviews - a rationale. Wednesday, 29 July 2015. Femenismo" by Joanne Limburg (Bloodaxe, 2000). Poems from 6 magazines I've been in, plus some other magazines I could have been in. Curse" begins " Good luck is like old money./ I was born into it/ and wear it like a shrug. P14; " abandoned skins. Posted by Tim Love.

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Litrefs Reviews: "The Secret Scripture" by Sebastian Barry (Faber and Faber, 2008)

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Literary reviews by Tim Love. Warning: Rather than reviews, these are often notes in preparation for reviews that were never finished, or pleas for help with understanding pieces. See Litref Reviews - a rationale. Saturday, 25 July 2015. The Secret Scripture" by Sebastian Barry (Faber and Faber, 2008). We are supposed to believe that a 100 year-old unschooled women who's been institutionalised for maybe 50 years can write like a Costa winner -. She hints about future revelations, and isn't entirely relia...