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17:32 5th Feb 2013

Tags: TRANSPACIFIC Cordite poetry Josephine Rowe

Not only does it have a wicked ‘cover’, but Issue 41:TRANSPACIFIC of Cordite Poetry Magazine is co-edited by Josephine Rowe, whose latest collection of stories I reviewed here.

(And yes, this will be crossposted when I get a minute or several…)

41.0: TRANSPACIFIC | Cordite Poetry Review)

13:47 3rd Sep 2012

Notes: 1

Reblogged from solongbulletin

Tags: poetry Collingwood teatowel poetry

Poetry and its keepers: Petra White

solongbulletin:

Poetry may be a (sob!) neglected art, but it can still attract devotees who are as scary as Collingwood supporters. It was wonderful to visit the Laurel Villa guesthouse in Margherafelt, Northern Ireland, ‘Heaney country’. Laurel Villa is a shrine to twentieth-century Irish poetry, with poems by Irish poets (particularly Seamus Heaney) on Belfast linen framed on the walls. Each room was devoted to a particular poet – I stayed in the MacNeice room. Our host, Eugene, took us on a tour of Heaney country, showing us sites and objects that feature in Heaney’s poems, including the forge of ‘Door into the Dark’, the original rusted turnip snedder in the back of a paddock, and the place the railway line of ‘The Railway Children’ used to be. Eugene’s knowledge of Heaney was considerable. We stood there as he read us the applicable poems, evoking the object or place that still existed or had changed or vanished.

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19:53 28th Aug 2012

Notes: 2

Tags: poetry Janet Frame

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An Angel @ My Blog: A birthday present to unwrap

A poem posted at the official Janet Frame literary estate blog, published by her niece Pamela Gordon, to celebrate her birthday today.

12:01 17th Jul 2012

Tags: poetry

Barbara Temperton reports from Cordite on poetic activity in her new neighbourhood, and includes a shot of a beautiful new book to be launched at the end of August:

Graham Kershaw (Hallowell Press) has been working for some time now on the production of the poetry anthology: Dark Diamonds: poems from the south coast of Western Australia. Dark Diamonds has been printed on a treadle platen press – an Arab, designed in the 1870s – using traditional letterpress techniques, with Centaur metal type imported from a foundry still operating in California. The books are hand-bound, as cloth-lined hardbacks. Alison Kershaw’s illustrations are copper relief etchings printed on the Arab. Dark Diamonds will be launched at 3pm on Saturday, August 25th, at the Butter Factory Studios, 8/12 Mt Shadforth Road, Denmark.

Notes from Narrogin and the Great Southern | Cordite Poetry Review)

14:13 14th Jul 2012

Tags: poetry art illustration

Poetry of Charles D’Orleans illustrated by Matisse, courtesy of Photobucket. We have lived long enough to see such beautiful things

To be reblogged at RW, when I’m back from my walk in the bitter air.

Winter has removed his coat, of wind, of rain, of bitter air. He go clad in cloth of gold, of blithe suns, clear & fair twitter.com/RareBook/statu…

— Alice McCormick (@RareBook) July 13, 2012

22:28 20th Jun 2012

Tags: poetry

From a poem, Keats By The Spanish Steps - Andy Kissane.

Young Severn,
bless his patience, would not give me laudanum today,
but has rigged up—ingenious trick—

a row of candles connected by a thread.
When one candle snuffs out, the next one spits
and crackles into life, then rises

with the hue of marigold, as if a field of oats
is waving in the winnowing wind, this flame
burning on and on, into the posthumous night.

posted at Meanjin

11:24 22nd May 2012

Tags: poetry

He may be best-known now for “The Pied Piper of Hamelin”, but the legacy of the dramatic monologue runs (via Eliot, Pound, Frost, Plath, Hughes and others) to Carol Ann Duffy in poetry, and all the way to the use of personas by rappers such as Eminem and Nicki Minaj in music. Almost all those jokes and send-ups came from Browning admirers, and testify (as parody often does) to his eminence.

Wilde’s remark may have originated as a snarky one-liner, but when deployed at the end of his essay on Browning its effect is very different – far from ridiculing either him or Meredith, he is applauding both. “Taken as a whole the man was great,” Wilde begins, and he concludes – after recalling figures from the poems – by declaring that as “a creator of character he ranks next to him who made Hamlet”. He should be seen, not as a poet, but as “the most supreme writer of fiction, it may be, that we have ever had”.

— Why such muted celebrations for Robert Browning’s bicentenary? | Books | The Guardian

19:03 16th May 2012

Notes: 1

Reblogged from thebrotherinelysium

Tags: poetry

thebrotherinelysium:

Lew Welch - How I Work as a Poet. Four Seasons Foundation, 1973. First Edition. Great cover photo on this edition. And a copy of a broadside I printed that is Welch’s dedication to his book On Out, Poems written between 1950-1960, also originally published by Donald Allen’s Four Season Foundation. Lew Welch, American Poet, 1926-1971.

Found via Kyle Schlesinger on Jacket2.

12:20 1st May 2012

Tags: art Fluxus poetry music

In our time aesthetic precincts have to be secured in order to guarantee an arena in which violations or outrages might register. Futurism’s provocations would never find front-page billing nowadays.

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CONCEPTUAL WRITING WAS INTRIGUING AND PROVOCATIVE: Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation

Johanna Drucker is quoted at length here, on conceptual writing (on which the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetics is silent). I’ve been reading about here because Ampersand Duck has put her blog into a networked form and I’m finally catching up with her report on the Impact 7 conference, where she spoke to Drucker about Fluxus on Skype.