Lovely to see a review of Pomes Flixus make into London Grip. Thanks to Julie Hogg (a fantastic poet herself) and to Michael and everyone at LG. Read the review here.
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“I’ll give you an answer by Christmas”
Correspondence between poet, publisher and City Lights bookshop owner Laurence Ferlinghetti, who has just died, and the poet Frank O’Hara.
“A poet lays his night upon the table” – Jean Cocteau speaks to the Year 2000
“We remain apprentice robots. I certainly hope that you have not become robots, but on the contrary that you have become very humanised. That’s my hope.”
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The Lonely Crowd – Issue 12
The Lonely Crowd Issue 12 is published today and I’m delighted to have three poems in it – ‘Found Poem for Philip Glass’, ‘David, Again’ and ‘Music of the Woods’. At 325 pages it’s a whopper of an issue, with prose, essays and interviews as well as poems, and it’s a smart-looking thing, too. ThanksContinue reading “The Lonely Crowd – Issue 12”
Welcome to December
So into December we go. A really gloomy day here in the wilds of north Essex today. But that’s only right for this time of year, yeah? It feels like a blink since we were publishing Pomes Flixus six months ago. Yet how bright and green the late days of May seem now. Did youContinue reading “Welcome to December”
Stride magazine review: ‘Remembering this occasion is ours’
“These poems document the act of seeing and thinking about what is being seen just as Creeley’s work sometimes does. Memory and imagination are also here in abundance…” Rupert Loydell reviewed Pomes Flixus and The Orphaned Spaces in Stride magazine back in September. You can read them here.
Something Wonderful May Happen: New York School of Poets – and Beyond
Here’s an hour’s watch on the New York School of poets, featuring John Ashbery, Charles Bernstein, Jordan Davis, Jane Freilicher, Hettie Jones, Kenneth Koch, David Lehman, Alfred Leslie, Bill Morgan and Larry Rivers. Yep, this 2001 documentary film by Lars Movin, Niels Plenge and Thomas Thurah has only 362 views at the time of writingContinue reading “Something Wonderful May Happen: New York School of Poets – and Beyond”
A Poetry of Looking
“Of course you wouldn’t start from here” First line of ‘Itiner-y of a Pilgrimage’, the first poem in Pomes Flixus. So where should we start? Where do we expect to start? From the beginning? The beginning of what? From whose point of view? Disorientation is a key feature of many of the poems that interestContinue reading “A Poetry of Looking”
From Now On, Everything You Do Becomes an Integral Part of the Work
I wanted to return to Pomes Flixus and considered ways of opening the book (again). This is one response to the question, which I realise I haven’t yet proposed… From 1970 or thereabouts, Maurice Lemaître’s Toujours à l’avant garde de l’avant garde jusqu’au paradis et au delà.