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Category Archives: Essays
Empyrean Suite – a homage to my friend Fawzi Karim.
Here is a link to my homage to my friend Fawzi Karim – Empyrean Suite – together with an obituary to this great poet and noble man. All in the Fortnightly Review. Also, here is a link to the obituary … Continue reading
Posted in Essays, Poetry
Tagged Fawzi Karim, Incomprehensible Lesson, Iraqi Poetry, Plague Lands
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Teaching Writing and Art in Jail
A talk given for Confer: The Masks of Masculinity – Exploring the Links Between Male Vulnerability and Violence (18th May 2019) – at Foyles Bookshop. In the early years of this century I started teaching creative writing and art in … Continue reading
Posted in Essays, Politics
Tagged Creative Writing, Jail, teaching in prisons, young male criminals
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SATIRE for the Millenium
Very pleased that my essay on satire is now posted on The Fortnightly – Satire for the Millenium
Posted in Essays, Poetry
Tagged Dryden, Ewart, Hutson, Lovelace, Maris, satire, satirical poetry
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TACTILE, UNTOUCHABLE
Here is a new review for the Fortnightly Review – Tactile, Untouchable Looking at three stunning works of visual art on show in London just recently. I am dedicating this review here to the memory of Mary Maclean Another Review … Continue reading
Writing as the plough turns.
Very interesting article about Boustrophedon writing which I came across – by David L O’Hara. It proved rewarding to research I am doing into the relationship between dance steps and the metrical foot in poetic scansion, with regard to the … Continue reading
Posted in Essays, Poetry
Tagged Boustrophedon, early writing, experimental writing, Gortyn, Lefebvre, Robbe-Grillet, William Burroughs
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Statius: Silvae
STATIUS: SILVAE Sleep, Silence’ child, sweet father of soft rest, Prince, whose approach peace to all mortals brings, Indifferent host to shepherds and to kings, Sole comforter of minds with grief opprest; Lo, by thy charming rod all breathing things … Continue reading
Posted in Essays, Poetry
Tagged Anthony Howell, Anvil, Carcanet, Latin Poetry, poetry, Statius, translation, W.G. Shepherd
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We Live in a Nuthouse
Brilliant piece in Hyperallergic. Click here for this Studs Terkel/Zero Mostel interview posted by Karen Schiff.
Posted in art, Essays, Performance Art
Tagged abstract expressionism, art criticism, CIA, Eugene Ionesco, Zero Mostel
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