Sunday, September 4, 2011

What is a poem?

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‘Poetry is a verdict not an occupation’ or in the words of Pierre Bourdieu (1993. P.35): ‘The work of art is an object which exists as such ...
Monday, August 15, 2011

"Words Alone: Yeats and His Inheritances" by R.F.Foster.

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I think one could fairly describe R.F. Foster's output as prodigious. The amount of reading that must have gone into his two volume bio...
Friday, August 5, 2011

The Australian National Poetry symposium: Free advice on how to be a poetry evangelist.

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How to be a poetry evangelist, or an evangelist for Poetry General Rules 1) Discuss Poetry, or Contemporary poetry: an idealized abstrac...
Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Bunting, Persian, and Davis' 'Shahnameh'.

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I’m reading Dick Davis’ translation of the Shahnameh. Partly because it is the subject of one of my favorite Bunting stories, partly to find...
Sunday, July 31, 2011

Yeats, Pound and Bram Stoker (!)

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According to Roy Foster's life of Yeats, in the winter of 1915 WBY and Pound were at Stone Cottage reading, amongst other things, Dracul...
Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Geoffrey Hill, 'Clavics' (part four).

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Peter at Enitharmon Press, the publishers of Clavics, drew my attention to this: http://www.enitharmon.co.uk/pages/store/products/ec_view.as...
Saturday, July 9, 2011

The First English Dictionary of Slang, 1699

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In 1699, what would you do if someone offered you “A Willing-Tit”? The Bodleian Library, which previously published Cawdrey’s “First Engli...