Just saw Griff Rhys Jones leaping about in a field of daffodils on BBC 2 - producer's logic: posh sounding chap with double-barrelled name who used to present programme about saving English heritage sites equals the right kind of chap to front Poetry Week.
Yes, the whole BBC poetry thing has had a tiresome, anti-intellectual naffness . . .
Reading Silliman on the Padel debacle this morning did my heart good. Help! I'm in the wrong country when it comes to poetry! Which is one reason why I cannot fully enter into the spirit of your list of British poets, I'm afraid . . .
I'm currently enjoying Mark Levine's Enola Gay -- think Ashbery crossed with Harsent's Legion!
That sounds good -- which book is that? (Not that I should buy any more -- I promised myself a moratorium on book-buying, a period of consolidation and reflection, catching up with all the great stuff already on my shelves!) W.
Lavish Absence - Recalling and Rereading Edmond Jabes. You can get it for under a tenner from Aphrohead & you'll get cheaper p&p (I seem to get just about everything good from them!).
I, too, swore off buying more books after the Easter move made me realize just how many I have (& haven't really done justice to). Then up pops Keith Waldrop & I just have to get ... and ... and ...
"Of the buying of books there is no end" - as it says in the Bible (sort of).
I've just ordered When blue light falls by Carol Watts, after reading Silliman's rave review -- there we are, some British poets still doing good things . . .
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Yes, the whole BBC poetry thing has had a tiresome, anti-intellectual naffness . . .
Reading Silliman on the Padel debacle this morning did my heart good. Help! I'm in the wrong country when it comes to poetry! Which is one reason why I cannot fully enter into the spirit of your list of British poets, I'm afraid . . .
I'm currently enjoying Mark Levine's Enola Gay -- think Ashbery crossed with Harsent's Legion!
Walrus
At times the UK poetry scene reminds me of the CAMRA battles of the 70s. Stay loyal to your local breweries!
I'm reading Waldrop (Rosmarie, this time) reminiscing about Jabes.
She uses Blanchot quite a bit. And there's loads of good stuff about her theories of translation.
Cheers
The C.
That sounds good -- which book is that? (Not that I should buy any more -- I promised myself a moratorium on book-buying, a period of consolidation and reflection, catching up with all the great stuff already on my shelves!) W.
Lavish Absence - Recalling and Rereading Edmond Jabes. You can get it for under a tenner from Aphrohead & you'll get cheaper p&p (I seem to get just about everything good from them!).
I, too, swore off buying more books after the Easter move made me realize just how many I have (& haven't really done justice to). Then up pops Keith Waldrop & I just have to get ... and ... and ...
"Of the buying of books there is no end" - as it says in the Bible (sort of).
The C.
I've just ordered When blue light falls by Carol Watts, after reading Silliman's rave review -- there we are, some British poets still doing good things . . .
W
There you are!
Wadworth's 6X, Marks & Spencer's Christmas Cheddar truckle, misty mornings in autumn ... some things England does best.
(Plus political scandals, stupid quiz shows, rabid press ...).
The C.
P.S. kitten offers starting to come in!
Just looked at that pdf download Ron links for Carol Watts.
Now that is EXACTLY the kind of book I love.
Yum yum.
The C.
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