poetry
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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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Radio Scotland is airing a three-part series on Scottish poetry called “Poets and The Nation” on Mondays from 11:30 to 12:00. You can listen online from the features page (I assume each programme is available for the standard seven days after broadcast). The first instalment, which was broadcast Monday this week, explored how Scottish poets…
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Thank Heaven: the world is hectic enough as it is.
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Just discovered an interesting site: the web pages of LUPAS, the Liverpool University Centre for Poetry and Science. I haven’t explored the site in depth yet, but it looks interesting, especially the diaries section, a communal blog of sorts involving poets and scientists. I’ve had a brief scan of the essays section, but the text…
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Last time, I introduced the basics of my new terminology for rhyme. This post applies that terminology to the examination of more complex phenomena in rhyme. Remember that you can find a key to the symbols I use to indicate individual sounds here. You should be familiar with the use of slashes round a symbol…
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Wednesday night’s reading went well. I irritated myself by stumbling uncharacteristically over a couple of lines at the beginning, but I settled into the groove fairly soon. Both Gerrie Fellows and I had 40 minutes (two 20-minute sets), which is double the length of time I’ve ever had before! I had plenty work to fill…
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In the previous post in this series, I briefly explored why rhyme terminology was ripe for revision. In this post, I set out the basics of a revised terminology. At one point, this entails using a wee bit more involved terminology from linguistics, which I’ll explain in a supplementary post so that this one doesn’t…
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This post concerns itself with brief definitions of the basic rhyme phenomena and a quick critque of the traditional terminology. Throughout this series, it’ll be necessary to use some technical terms from linguistics and literary studies, but I’ll explain them as I go along. Rhyme involves a correspondence between two or more elements, usually, but…
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Back in the dim and distant past, as a Linguistics student, I wrote an Honours dissertation on rhyme. It grew out of my reflection on rhyme practice as a reader and nascent writer of poetry and developed into a critque of a PhD thesis on rhyme by a Dutch linguist, Astrid Holtman. It struck me…
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Just over a week until my reading with Gerrie Fellows for the Poetry Association of Scotland! Having been a member of the Association for a good few years, I know I can expect not only a warm welcome but an acute audience. It’s the best combination a writer can have. Here are the details: Wednesday…
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After the horror of the photoshoot, we settled down to writing, with Ken first recording an introduction to the renga for the BBC Radio Scotland arts show Radio Cafe. Elspeth had to shuffle off for a live studio interview with them at lunchtime, but Richard and I were left voiceless on the airwaves. Participating in…
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Imagine my surprise when I clicked on the headline “Poets’ work to form basis of city literature collection” in my daily e-mail from The Scotsman and found it was a report of the poems on pillows commission! As you’ll see if you read the piece, they’ve got rather confused about what is being written when…
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