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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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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
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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Reviews of Poets and other Articles in The Fortnightly Review
Here is a link to Against Pound– a brief new essay in the Fortnightly. And here is an earlier review of several poets published back in November 2013 in The Fortnightly Review It featured four poets: Kathryn Maris, Jackie … Continue reading
George Pitts and the Longer Line in Poetry
This page is a link to my essay on the longer line, and it is also a homage to the brilliant poet George Pitts, who died sadly in 2015. John Ashbery was a great admirer of George’s work and introduced … Continue reading
LINKS TO NEW POEMS, ESSAYS AND REVIEWS
(This post last updated 20 May 2026) Very pleased to see I DO MORE DEEPLY published finally in THE EXACTING CLAM MAGAZINE Issue 21 Review of Melissa McCarthy’s Photo, Phyto, Proto, Nitro published in The Fortnightly Review Ten Poems from Shorter … Continue reading
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Tagged Alain-Fournier, Australian poetry, Chauvet, Epping, Hubble, JPR, latest published, poems and essays by Anthony Howell, poetry, Serpentine, Songs of Realisation, The Fortnightly Review, The High Window, the madrigal, The Runiad, The Spectator
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CLASP Late modernist poetry in the 1970s
Tony Lopez posted this on Facebook, just as my own copy came through the post. Just received a copy of *Clasp: late modernist poetry in London in the 1970s*, edited by Ken Edwards and Robert Hampson and published by Tony Frazer at Shearsman … Continue reading
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