All things poetic.
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Jun 2
Rainer Maria Rilke, “Before the Summer Rain” (“Vor dem Sommerregen”, “New Poems”, tr. Edward Snow) #poetry
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Jun 2
Percy Bysshe Shelley – Poems can’t be willed (“A Defence of Poetry”)
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Jun 3
Andrew Neilson's Little Griefs owes its considerable effects to quiet skill and a mastery of tone. A strong debut here - I was moved both by its precision and its poignancy.
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We're delighted to announce that Joanna Lowry has won the Mslexia Women's Poetry Pamphlet Competition 2025 for her debut pamphlet The Man Whose Brain Turned to Glass.
The winning pamphlet will be co-published by @BloodaxeBooks & @mslexia in September.
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May 22
“Love is a universal migraine,
A bright stain on the vision
Blotting out reason.
Symptoms of true love
Are leanness, jealousy,
Laggard dawns;
Are omens and nightmares—
Listening for a knock,
Waiting for a sign:
For a touch of her fingers
In a darkened room.”
—Robert Graves, “Symptoms of Love”
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May 22
Ben Jonson
Why I write not of Love
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May 22
Poetry reading. In June. In London. Super company. Please join us. 🙏
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T S Eliot's English translation of St John Perse's Anabase was published #OTD in 1930.
The translation was published side by side with the original French, 'so that readers may judge for themselves of the merit and accuracy of the translation, and of the beauty of the original.'
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May 20
Chapter near ending,
But hesitation tangles
Like broken branches.
Stop. Start. Pause. Rewrite?
The point of view side shifting –
New flowers to bloom?
It hovers, held up
Between logic and instinct –
Let this seed flourish!
#WriterLife #DisabledLife
#Haiku #WritersWednesday
#WIP
ALT A close-up of a small open notebook showing handwritten text. The writing is messy, with errors crossed out using a fineliner pen with black ink. The text is a haiku which reads ‘chapter near ending, but hesitation tangles like broken branches. Stop. Start. Pause. Rewrite? The point of view side shifting –new flowers to bloom? It hovers, held up between logic and instinct – let this seed flourish!’ Where the notebook opens there is a thin black pen. To the right there is a blue postcard with an arty image showing blocks and vertical lines in subtle blue tones. On top in one corner is a small box reading ‘metal compass’, and below is an ornate magnifying glass with beautiful pewter embellishment. Everything is on a pink background.
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wee poem in LRB this week
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So very sorry to have had to reschedule this morning’s Heaney webinar - now on the 23rd May, when I plan not to have a vestibular migraine. Today’s tickets valid, of course.
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Really looking forward to this night for Roddy Lumsden on 12th June. All are welcome, whether you're an old pal of RCL or know his work from @BloodaxeBooks or @ByLeavesWeLive
Free tickets and more info --> eventbrite.co.uk/e/mischief-…
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‘The poetry of a people takes its life
from the people’s speech and in turn gives life to it'
From Eliot's introduction to his series of Charles Eliot Norton Lectures delivered at Havard University between November 1932 and December 1933.
#tseliot #poetry #theuseofpoetry
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Apr 29
“Ithaca gave you the beautiful journey.”
– C.P. Cavafy was born #OTD April 29, 1863. He died on his 70th birthday, April 29, 1933.
“Ithaca”, translated by @DAMendelsohnNYC
#poetry #cavafy
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Apr 15
April is also National Poetry Month and this is a Gwendolyn Brooks poem that I keep close to my heart and think of often
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—Anne Carson, O Small Sad Ecstasy of Love
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May 8
Sappho (translated by Guy Davenport)
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May 4
"And the May month flaps
its glad green leaves like wings,
Delicate-filmed as new-spun silk."
~ Thomas Hardy, 'Afterwards'
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RT @wowfest: On the 14th May @JTaylorTrash brings Maryville to WoWFEST and @liverpoolphil a searing staged reading excavating 50 years of…
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Mar 1
Happy Birthday, Cal.
ALT Lowell, with glasses and a sweater is sitting on a chair, exuding a relaxed and contemplative demeanor.
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