Monday, May 30, 2011

Blurb wars; Geoffrey Hill, 'Clavics'.(part one)

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For reasons unknown I own a copy of every book of poems Geoffrey Hill has published since the Penguin collected of 1985. Which I also have. ...
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Saturday, May 28, 2011

The uses of poetry: David Whyte: Preservation of the Soul (excerpt)

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David Whyte http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XO0OjtThqyI&feature=related
Friday, May 27, 2011

Never Explain-your reader is as smart as you are

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Bunting again. Good advice, although one might observe, perhaps unfairly, that if your small circle of readers are called Louis Zukofsky, Ez...
Thursday, May 19, 2011

I like that said Offa, sing it again.

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The poet as makar. Not as sage or seer, or recorder of the human condition or shaper of texts suitable for the educational system, or cultu...
Saturday, May 14, 2011

The evils of academic writing: AMITAVA KUMAR: DENIS DUTTON IS DEAD http://www.bookslut.com/denis_dutton_is_dead/2011_05_017627.php

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AMITAVA KUMAR: DENIS DUTTON IS DEAD http://www.bookslut.com/denis_dutton_is_dead/2011_05_017627.php Subtitled “Theory vs. Academic writing” ...
Thursday, May 12, 2011

Blurb Wars revisited: Tom Pickard, 'Tiepin Errors', BB and BS.

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I recently read the blurb for a collection of poems which was so tangled in its own imitation of ”critical jargon” that the writer could cla...
Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Tom Pickard's "More Pricks Than Prizes'

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I feel bad that I bought a second hand copy, but the press‘s website wouldn’t take my money for a new one and, frustrated, I went to bookfin...