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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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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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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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Basil Bunting – a review

My Review of Basil Bunting here in the Fortnightly

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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

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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

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LINKS TO NEW POEMS, ESSAYS AND REVIEWS

(This post last updated 15 March 2026) Review of Melissa McCarthy’s Photo, Phyto, Proto, Nitro published in The Fortnightly Review Ten Poems from Shorter Poems 1969-2022 published in The High Window. A Review of Autumn, plus an interview in CHAINLINK … Continue reading

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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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Is 5

Ok, so here is a wonderful forward by e. e. cummings, followed by a poem from IS5 FOREWORD TO IS5 On the assumption that my technique is either complicated or original or both, the publishers have politely requested me to … Continue reading

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GREY SUIT EDITIONS

Grey Suit Editions WE have moved on since I first posted this, and have now published a further three chap-books – Rosanne Wasserman, Donald Gardner and Hugo Williams. Please click on the link above for details. Grey Suit Editions, another … Continue reading

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