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I hope you enjoyed last week’s holiday poetry reads posts. There are some great ones coming this week, so do keep an eye on the blog. One of them is from Robert Peake, who, of course, is hosting the transatlantic reading with me and Michelle Bitting on Wednesday on Google+. Here is an invitation video
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Thanks to Robert Peake, I’m in the Huff again. That is, his interview with me and Rob A Mackenzie is now available in the culture section of the Huffington Post’s UK edition. I am hugely grateful to Robert for taking the time to ask us some penetrating and stimulating questions. In other news, I’ll be
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The wonderful Michelle McGrane has featured several poems from The North End of the Possible on her blog, Peony Moon. Michelle is a heroine of the poetry blogosphere, quietly supporting poet after poet after poet with her site. Make sure you linger in her virtual salon and sample some of the other work she has
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Well, you make your little noises in your own wee virtual glen and then, before you know it, there’s a rumble of snow elsewhere. I’m delighted to see that not only has Mark Burnhope’s blog been picked out as the featured blog for today on the NaPoWriMo site, but his growing number of abnominals is
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I just realised that my publications page was getting horrendously out of date, so I’ve updated it with details of the most recent anthology and magazine publications, as well as mentioning that The Ambulance Box is now in paperback. Yes, folks, that’s how out of date it was! To be honest, I’d almost forgotten it
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Stephen Welsh has posted the newspaper poem he read in the final round of the Friendly Slam last week. Very good to be able to read it. I recommend you take a look, because it was definitely one of the stand-out poems of the evening, however modest Mr Welsh is about it. The poem itself
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As many poets gear up for NaPoWriMo, in which they attempt to spend every day in April writing a poem*, I’ve signed up for InterNaPwoWriMo, in which poets from throughout the world post a pwoermd** a day during April. Much more manageable; simultaneously far zanier and far saner. A pwoermd is, as the name suggests,
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“Good art stops being art — it becomes a way of being happy, of receiving something beautiful and human from stranger, of confirming one’s identity, of being not alone.” AL Kennedy in The Guardian books blog today arguing with typical intelligence, wit and accessiblity that it’s not unreasonable to defend arts funding when all the
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Right now — 3 pm on Saturday 17 July 2010 — a flashmob is taking place at the Southbank Centre in London to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Salt Publishing. The assembled throng is reciting the great Pablo Neruda‘s “Ode to Salt”, reproduced below. And across the salinated literary blogosphere (there’s a phrase I never
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MacAdam Essays the Epistemics of a Dream It used to chase me through the dark each night, though the dark was a crowded beach dizzy with sun and I was never alone but running with my father and it was two men dressed in dark suits who were agents of HM secret services, though how
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Michelle McGrane has been generous enough to offer to post a couple of poems from The Ambulance Box on her blog Peony Moon. You can now read “The Invention of Zero” and “Lullaby” on there, along with blurby bits and a short bio. Many thanks, Michelle! It’s turned into quite an encouraging week on the
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I stumbled* recently over McShandy’s the rather excellent blog of Stuart Kelly, literary editor of the Scotland on Sunday and have been meaning to link to it since. I’ve even more reason to do so now, as Stuart features on the latest Scottish Poetry Library podcast, discussing Berryman’s Dream Songs, the potential of the internet for
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Having become conscious that the Salt website it was becoming a microblogosphere of its own, the team have consolidated the Salt Confidential, Salt Office Life and Cyclone Virtual Book Tour blogs into a single smart, new Salt blog. Not only does it have a clean new look, but it feels like the blog has a
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Oscar’s in the air this weather: from Katy Evans-Bush’s poems about him and Henry James, through her post the other day about his poetry criticism* and, of course, the new film of The Picture of Dorian Gray to the theme Merchant City Festival writers conference, taken from an essay of his, “The Decay of Lying”.
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… the posts appeared. And the comments. So welcome to Tonguefire’s new home. Everything from the old blogspot is here. The blog’s former abode still exists, but I won’t be touching it from now on. All the internal links in the old posts still point there and I sincerely doubt whether I’d ever get round
Amy Jo Philip 