Sunday, January 27, 2019

Rewriting the Middle Ages, James Harpur's 'Kells' 3/3b

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This is the fourth, final post about James Harpur's 'Kells'.  Opinionating in progress.  Does it matter if Harpur’s Gerald ...
Friday, January 25, 2019

Old and Early Middle English

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Perhaps obvious, but still interesting to compare readings of Old English with  Laȝamon's early Middle English. 'Maldon' was ob...
Tuesday, January 22, 2019

James Harpur's 'Kells', rewriting the middle ages, 'Gerald of Wales'. 3/3a

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The third poem in 'Kells' is ‘Gerald of Wales’. Leaving aside the quality of Harpur’s poetry, which I’ve already praised, ‘Gerald...
Friday, January 11, 2019

James Harpur 'Kells', Scribe B and rewriting the middle ages 2/3

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Part two In ‘Scribe B’ , the second section of 'Kells' in The  White  Silhouette,  James Harpur invents a character for someone w...
Friday, January 4, 2019

James Harpur, 'Kells' and rewriting the middle ages. 1/3

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James’ Harpur’s ‘Kells’ is a sequence of 4 poems in his book ‘The White Silhouette’ (Carcanet 2018). Harpur rewrites the middle ages in way...
Tuesday, December 11, 2018

Three new poems in The High Window

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'Three stories from Gerald of Wales'  taken from his prose 'Journey through Wales'.  I've known the first one for a lo...
Friday, December 7, 2018

The Poetry Voice-The Pleasure of poetry

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One of the great pleasures of poetry is to read it aloud. So for no other reason than that, I'm recording poems on ...