Amy Jo Philip
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Thank Heaven: the world is too much as it was.
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I discovered some more rich seams of poetry recordings on the web this week. First off, there’s the Internet Poetry Archive, an American site not to be confused with Britain’s Poetry Archive. The Internet Poetry Archive very small, with recordings from only seven poets so far, but some significant names. I was pleased to find…
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Just received confirmation that my reading slot at the StAnza 2007 100 Poets Gathering on Sunday 18 March will be some time between 12:30 and 2:15. It’s quite a gathering, as you can see on the StAnza site.
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Roy Hattersley defends the notion that poetry should be difficult, though not necessarily with reference to poets usually described as difficult.
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Read this, by Eliot Weinberger, and weep. Then read this, also by Weinberger, and weep some more. Finally, read this, not by Weinberger, and smile grimly.
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1My recent visits to the HappenStance site have revealed that a lot has been going on behind the front page. The publications and chapbook reviews sections have been completely overhauled, with a very swish look and a good deal of new features. 2 The website of Chapman, the grande dame of Scotland’s literary magazines, had…
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Helena Nelson, in her HappenStance guise, e-mailed me yesterday to let me know that, apart from the small handful of sale copies I have myself, Tonguefire is officially sold out! For all sorts of reasons, it feels good to have reached that landmark at this point. I’m in a good position to appreciate it at…
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As I stated in the first main post in this series, the traditional conception of rhyme doesn’t allow for syllable onsets to play any role in rhyming, except in identical twin rhyme. The problem is that this analysis can’t account for much 20th century and contemporary rhyme practice, in which the onset muscles in on…
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Last night, it being Ash Wednesday, we were discussing taking things up for lent when my wife suggested I should write a poem a day for the season. It’s an insane idea, especially given the very impending birth of our baby, but I didn’t dismiss it. Nor did I cave. More the fool me, you…
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1 I recommend a listen to this week’s edition of “Poets and the Nation”. It’s a good, intelligent piece of broadcasting about how cultural change in Scotland has been reflected in poetry through the ages. It bounces about time a bit more than last week’s, which is one thing in its favour. 2 Radio 3…
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Spurred on by Kevin Doran’s reflections on the different linking habits in poets’ blogs on either side of the Virtual Pond, I’ve added a couple more links that should have been added yonks ago. Chief among my neglections is Kathryn Gray‘s blog. I say “chief” because it was stumbling upon this blog ages ago (and…
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I’ve been finding my Feedburner feed and site stats quite fascinating reading. Most interesting of all is coming across hits from the blogs of other writers I don’t know who’ve linked to me and therefore said blogs and writers, whom I might not have known about otherwise. In the past few days, I’ve found Ron…
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I’ve added a few new links and rearranged the sidebar a little by creating a “Poetry Resources” section, not that I’m that clear as to what the precise division is between that and “Words”, but there we go. A couple of sites I’ve only just discovered are Modern American Poetry, which contains useful critical material…
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In the preface to Antonio Machado: Selected Poems, the translator Alan S Trueblood (what a gift of a name!) writes: “One cannot hold today that a poet’s voice in translation should sound as if he had been writing in English all along. … Some aura of foreignness, individually and culturally marked, should survive re-creation.” By…
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As I mentioned in my post on LUPAS one matter touched on in the Q&A at last Wednesday’s reading was the poetry-science divide. The divide in reactions to Gerrie Fellow’s new work was fascinating in that respect. Norman Kreitman, a PAS stalwart, complimented her on tackling the spiritual impact of technology. “Very few poets have…
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