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Category Archives: Essays
The Melancholy of Making Poetry
Poetry is perhaps the most difficult of arts because the easiest to set about – you don’t need a chisel or a canvas or an instrument or a studio. Writing is eminently convenient. But melancholy derives from the need of … Continue reading
SONNETS FOR ALL TASTES
Lady Mary Wroth – one of our first sonneteers. Here is a link to my essay on Sonnets. It is published by the Fortnightly Review. See also the Corona What went on – in Rosanne Wasserman’s No Archive on Earth which … Continue reading
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Tagged corona, Jacqueline Saphra, Keith Hutson, Lady Mary Wroth, Lee Miller, poetry, Rosanne Wasserman, Sir Philip Sidney, Sonnets
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John Ashbery 1927-2017
Here he is reading for Grey Suit. To find him reading Soonest Mended and other poems, please scroll to 47:31 on Issue 3 Here is my obituary note in the Fortnightly Review. Here is a link to an interview with … Continue reading
Posted in Essays, Poetry
Tagged abstract poetry, art criticism, John Ashbery, The New York School
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THE NEW BEAUTY
Click the link for THE NEW BEAUTY This is an essay published by The Fortnightly Review. For a complete list of links to other reviews of poets and my previous articles click here: The Fortnightly
Posted in art, Essays, Politics
Tagged art, beauty, Chris Burden, Damian Hirst, diamonds, Fifty Shades of Grey, Fortnightly Review, gold, Harry Potter, K Foundation, money, Peter Matthews
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FIVE FIGURE EXERCISE – Lucinda Childs, Philip Glass, Sol LeWitt, Stuart Sherman and Robert Wilson (1979)
FIVE FIGURE EXERCISE – Harpers & Queen, May 1979 I reckon this is a historic document, so re-publish it here. On a still undefined boundary of modern art painter Sol LeWitt, dancer Lucinda Childs and composer Philip Glass are working … Continue reading
Posted in art, Dance, Essays, Performance Art
Tagged Lucinda Childs, Minimalism, Performance Art, Philip Glass, Robert Wilson, So LeWitt, Stuart Sherman, Systemic Art
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What are Perversions?
My essay comparing attitudes to perversion, then and now.
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Tagged Gilles de Rais, J-K Huysmans, La-Bas, Perversion, sadism, Sergio Benvenuto
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No Selection for Old Farts
Every single submission of mine to poetry magazines has been rejected – to date, for the last three years; but acceptance had become a rarity since 2010. A list of repeated rejections includes all the standard, Arts Council subsidised, UK … Continue reading
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Tagged poetry submissions, rejecting editors, rejection slips, sour grapes, submissions
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No Posts for Old Farts
Hi Anthony I’m sorry that you weren’t shortlisted for the vacant post here in Creative Writing. I know how much effort and emotional energy goes into a job application, and how disappointing it is not to get an interview. There … Continue reading
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Tagged Creative Writing, Creative Writing Courses, qualifications, rejections
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NO AGENTS FOR OLD FARTS
“…..Wherever there was a gentleman of renown in his home I had silver and a mount. From whomsoever some had greatness and gifts, greatness and gifts had I from the house of Saman. The Prince of Khorassan gave me forty … Continue reading
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Tagged authors, Literary agents, publishing your work, rejection, rejection slips
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Basil Bunting – a review
My Review of Basil Bunting here in the Fortnightly
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Tagged Basil Bunting, Don Share, Ezra Pound, Iran, labouring class poetry, Northumbrian, objectivism, poetry
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