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“Wandelvakanties Dicht bij Huis“, one of the poems from The Ambulance Box, has just appeared today as part of the short season of other poets Jane Holland is running at the moment on her Raw Light blog. I’ve updated the sidebar with links to it and several other poems, including one in the wonderful this
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Just spotted that Rob A Mackenzie’s The Opposite of Cabbage and my collection The Ambulance Box are both now on the front page of the Salt website. Rob is beneath Keats, and I’m under Vincent De Souza. Rob also has his first review, at the blog of Tony Williams, whose collection is due out from
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It’s fairly pointless to say this, as it’s blindingly obvious, but I’ve added the cover image for The Ambulance Box to the sidebar. Apparently, the collection is also one of several Salt books to feature in a back-page ad in the latest issue of the LRB!* I haven’t seen it yet as Linlithgow shops don’t
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Rob Mackenzie has blogged about using personas and characters in his poetry. One of the points he discusses is the degree to which a reader is likely to equate the I of a poem written in the first person with the writer. Anyone who writes in a persona — anyone who writes, I suspect —
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Katy Evans-Bush‘s virtual book tour has got off to a glowing winter start with a short but delightful interview at the North Meadow Media blog. I just had to write down the following and share it with you: Word play opens up the language itself, like a pile of roasted chestnuts, for our delectation. Isn’t
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That ever-stylish blogger and Salt poet Katy Evans-Bush embarks tomorrow on a virtual book tour to promote her collection Me and the Dead. The tour, entitled “A Conversation About Dreams” will include feature interviews, pictures, audio, poems, jokes and a few serious moments — everything you’d expect from an in-person book tour expect flesh-pressing signing
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Mick Imlah, Kathryn Simmonds and Don Paterson. No real surprise on the main Forward prize and possibly not an enormous surprise on the best poem prize, but Kathyrn Simmonds’s win in the best first collection category seems to have been unexpected. To be honest, I can’t really comment, not having read any of the winners
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Just last week, I came across Claire Askew‘s new blog, One Night Stanzas, designed to guide young or inexperienced writers through some of the thornier thickets of life as a poet. It’s a useful site with lots of good advice (and stylish photographs!) worth a look even for those of us with a modicum of
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In common with many in the poetry blogosphere, I was shocked and sadened to read that the American poet, critic and blogger Reginald Shepherd died this week, aged only 45. The news came to me through Ron Silliman‘s blog, which is fitting, as it was a link from a post of his that first took
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There’s an extensive, thoughtful and very positive review of the sampler over at Jim Murdoch’s ever stimulating blog The Truth about Lies. Jim comments on each of the poems in turn, as well as on general aspects of the pamphlet as an object and collection. This is the paragraph that most interests me: As a
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Sorlil has very kindly reviewed my sampler on her blog. As far as I know, it’s the first review of this pamphlet and I’m very pleased with what she has to say about it. She comments: “These poems are unlike most of the poems I read these days, there is something very different and at
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Interesting short post about Christianity and poetry on Todd Swift’s blog Eyewear. Swift says: Christian poetry, in Britain, has become nearly as invisible as God – partially due, no doubt, to the fear on the part of would-be practitioners of such verse, that such discourse would lead away from the irony, or ambiguity, expected (or
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We seem to be having a blog-focused day here: in a typically thoughtful post on the hard work and vageries of literary blogging, Jim Murdoch has very kindly highlighted Tonguefire — specifically the Reasoning Rhyme series — among a small handful of lit blogs of note. He has succeeded in adding considerably and gloriously to
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Katy Evans-Bush, aka Ms Baroque, has moved her fine blog, Baroque in Hackney, from Blogger to WordPress. I’ll update the link in the sidebar. She’s a stylish and intelligent blogger so it’s well worth following her flit.
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Rob A Mackenzie got himself in slightly hot water with some comment writers on his blog last week for daring to suggest that he might not consider Magi Gibson’s work poetry. Unfortunately, instead of following the question of what makes a poem a poem, which could have thrown up some interesting ideas and insights, the
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