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Major Stede Bonnet – Gentleman Pirate
Introducing a new Heyzine online book: here is the link Major Stede Bonnet was an authentic pirate of the Caribbean. However, he was also a landowner and gentleman of Barbados, and the only pirate to have purchased his own ship. … Continue reading
Posted in Ebooks and flipbooks, FICTION, history and Geography
Tagged FICTION, historical novel, novel of letters, Pirates, Spanish Main
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Maria Zakharova on English Literature!
When you listen to the State Department’s latest cries that Gershkovich is a journalist and not a spy, just remember the autobiography of the British writer Somerset Maugham (Of Human Bondage, The Moon and Sixpence, Theatre, The Patterned Veil) called … Continue reading
TANGO
x I have to dance a tango with Joe. Commission I should not have taken on though Reduced to a flourish at the show. Joe can’t get the footwork. The red carpet Doesn’t help his pivot. No, Joe, no! Christ, … Continue reading
The Broken Vase
I have just published a new slide-show on Youtube here! The drawings in pencil on a black watercolour ground are inspired by a passage in The Runiad – the epic poem I am writing. Stay with me now. There is … Continue reading
Posted in art, Poetry, The Runiad
Tagged Anthony Howell, fragment, poetry, The Runiad, visual art
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The RUNIAD – Book 9
Excerpt from Book 9 in the Fortnightly Review here. The Runiad is a project I started in 2023 – an epic poem that will be 24 books long. As a work in progress it can be read for free as … Continue reading
Posted in Ebooks and flipbooks, Poetry, The Runiad
Tagged Anthony Howell, duality versus the whole., ethics and aesthetics, Galatea, Runiad
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Kazuko Shiraishi – “the Allen Ginsberg of Japan”
Kazuko Shiraishi has died aged 93. She was, to my mind, the most significant Japanese poet of her generation. She was a modernist, outsider poet who got her start in Katsue Kitazono’s avant-garde “VVOU” poetry group, which led Shiraishi to … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Reviews
Tagged Beat Poetry, Japanese poetry, Kazuko Shiraishi, Kenneth Rexroth, New Directions, Poetry and Jazz
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Observations on the Caesura
Here are the conventional terms for metrical feet in poetry. a line with two feet is a dimeter; a line with three feet is a trimeter; a line with four feet is a tetrameter; a line with five feet is … Continue reading
Posted in Essays, Poetry, The Runiad
Tagged caesura, English poetic meter, F T Prince, Primes, Runiad
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Celebrating Edward Field. One hundred years old today!
Congratulations, Edward! CELEBRATING HIS ASS they try to block your dick with their little pills x for blood pressure, prostate, heart they figure you’re an old guy x so what’s the difference and just to stay alive x you go … Continue reading
The Runiad – Book 8 – The Mare with the Beautiful Eyebrows
Book 8 of the Runiad is now on the Heyzine Link here. And an extract from Book 8 is now published in The Fortnightly Review Which means I am now one third of my way to completion of all 24 … Continue reading
