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Runaway Handicap
RUNAWAY HANDICAP Considering a runaway selection, If poetry can generate affection, Surely plumes of paradise entitle Me to a mate intent upon requital? My handicap’s an eloquence provoking Offended neo-liberal fits of choking, But when this stirs the … Continue reading
Heron of Hawthornden
HERON OF HAWTHORNDEN – a chap-book of dizains by Anthony Howell celebrating his residency at the castle in the Autumn of 2017. Illustrations by the author. Limited edition from Grey Suit Editions, UK. 20th November x Our very first breakfast. … Continue reading
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Tagged Drummond of Hawthornden, Hawthornden, literature, poetry
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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
Posted in Essays
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