poetry
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Rob A Mackenzie has been nominated for poet laureate of the blogosphere! Thing is, he says he doesn’t want it, which is tough, ’cause I’ve never heard of the other nominees. I don’t know much about what the accolade entails, either. First I heard of it was when Ron Silliman said his stint was now…
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I managed to scoot up to the Ingleby Gallery on Thursday to catch Alison Watt‘s installation “Dark Light” on its last day. Her shift from white canvases to black is logical: a further step in the stripping down that is represented by her progression from full-blown portraits to paintings of fabric to paintings of purely…
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Looks like the 100 Poets Gathering at StAnza was a pretty incendiary event! You can catch up with some more of what went on at the festival with Rob Mackenzie’s series of StAnza postings at Surroundings. Rob, a fellow HappenStance poet, read at a pamphlet poets event this year, as I did last year. He…
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Due to family circumstances, I’ve had to pull out of the 100 Poets Gathering at StAnza and won’t be able to make it to the festival at all. This means that my next scheduled reading is at the Shore Poets event in May, when I’ll be appearing alongside Kate Clanchy and my fellow HappenStancer, Rob…
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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…
Amy Jo Philip 