John Milton
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It’s a good season for poetry on Radio 3. The Essay last week was deeply under the influence: five contemporary poets each on a poet who influenced them. I’d recommend in particular Michael Symmons Roberts on David Jones; WN Herbert on Edwin Morgan (don’t ask me what the picture of Eilean Donan castle is about!);
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On the train into Edinburgh for Polly Clark‘s reading the other night, I finally started to read Sean O’Brien‘s Forward and TS Eliot prize-winning collection The Drowned Book. Now, I might be missing something–I must be missing something, if the judges of both prizes aren’t–but I simply couldn’t get into it. It’s not that it’s
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Perhaps I was too harsh on Rob Mackenzie’s schedule for reading Paradise Lost: I made it to the same point as him yesterday. Rob is doing a good job of summarising the poem and there are already a few interesting comments on his first post, so I won’t repeat what’s already on Surroundings. I have
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Rob Mackenzie has thrown down a gauntlet: to read Paradise Lost with him this month. “Paradise Lost in a month?” I hear you ask, as you fall off your chair in disbelief. It seems so. I will be joining him, although I guarantee I’ll fall behind his exacting and somewhat artificial schedule, which apparently works
Amy Jo Philip 