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QUEENS WEST
Hardly one open shop remains Inside this draughty vending hall: It never gets to share the circulation Of carrier-bagged pedestrians with cash to spare. Business is so bad that the discount clothing store Closes for lunch from eleven till quarter … Continue reading
Andrea Misse
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ZlxP0DWmd8Y#! Andrea Misse, tango star, died tragically at the beginning of 2012. This posts my obituary for her, and one of her last fantastic performances. tango-star-andrea-misse-1976-2012
Grey Suit: Poem Stream
This is a page on Facebook for poems chosen by myself, Kerry-Lee Powell and Pamela Stewart. Grey Suit: Poem Stream The page is just for poems, which may attract occasional comments. So it is a stream which may easily be … Continue reading
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CATHAR COUNTRY
They are here like us at Queribus And at Peyrepertuse, fiddling with their Camera batteries, dragging their red setters Up congested spirals onto views. When they meet each other unexpectedly Hyperbolic protests of astonishment Lose their fizz in about five … Continue reading
BATRACHIANS
A wary nod suffices on the cycle track. It follows an extensive reach where breezes Dint the idling river. Clustered round A sewer’s lid, cow parsley thrives, as muddied Clouds abet the treacherous stillness of This prelude to the weir … Continue reading
Articles by AH at the Fortnightly Review
Fortnightly articles This is the cluster index for all my articles published by the Fortnightly, on subjects such maverick poets, war poetry, the sixties, Marianne Faithful, carnival in Rio de Janeiro, on freeing up in poetry, on drone warfare, … Continue reading
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Tagged carnival, Essays, Marianne Faithful, mavericks, poets, satire, The Fortnightly Review, the sixties, war poets
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An Essay on Translation (first published in Stand Magazine in 1971)
TRANSLATION: A QUERY A review by Anthony Howell of Poem into Poem: world poetry in modern verse edited by George Steiner (Penguin 10/-) first published in Stand 12, no. 2, 1971 For the sake of argument let us say we … Continue reading
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