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POETRY READINGS TO CELEBRATE GREY SUIT EDITIONS – Poetry at the Room – Oct 11.
Wonderful evening. Thanks to all who came. POETRY At The Room Thursday 11 October 2018 – at 7.30 at The Room, 33 Holcombe Road, Tottenham Hale, London N17 9AS 7.30 pm. Special GREY SUIT launch addition – for Dialysis Days by Hugo … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Jenkins, Anthony Howell, Donald Gardner, Eugene Richie, Fawzi Karim, Glyn Maxwell, Graham Buchan, Grey Suit Editions, Hugo Williams, Jacqueline Saphra, Kerry-Lee Powell, Martyn Crucefix, Nandita Ghose, Poetry at the Room, Poetry in North London, Poetry Launch, Roseanne Wasserman, Sequences
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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
Two Poems by Penny Boxall
I posted this when I got back from Hawthornden in the winter of 2017, where I spent a month writing and painting watercolours. And here are two poems by Penny – who was also a fellow, one for Jean Findlay … Continue reading
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Tagged bagpipes, Hawthornden, Hawthornden Fellowship, Penny Boxall, poetry
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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
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Tagged abstract poetry, art criticism, John Ashbery, The New York School
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THE READIES
It starts in tantrum’s pram; those tears for treats withheld – Unfair and inexplicable. And then there is the wonder of it all: Your pocket money tripled by that cheque from uncle – x Lack of these feeds the will … Continue reading
WAY BACK WHEN
We could all just tumble into bed together. We could make love not war, And then we couldn’t any more. Now there’s terror everywhere – and condoms. x Way back, before, you could cruise across Iran Into Afghanistan, accommodate the … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, Bonobo, condoms, hippies, make love not war, marijuana
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Beverley at Iguazu
Click on image for my poem. More readings and performances here But scroll down to foot of the linked page to pause audio tracks before choosing what to play.
FROM INSIDE – my book of post-satirical poems.
At last a review! Scroll down on the link here to find it. And in print, there is now one in the latest Poetry Salzburg Review – which can be found by scrolling down to the end of this … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Howell, Arkan, Dick Cheney, From Inside, Immoralism, Jail, King John, poetry, Project for the New American Century, satire, T S Eliot
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Dick
DICK Eight days after the invasion we were dealing with a country That could actually finance its reconstruction by our own Reconstruction contractors. A decade later, and we have a failed State which is relatively easy to exploit, and that … Continue reading
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