Happy to leave work today and find not only that the bastard ice has melted (thus rendering my hilly walk home a pleasurable one in which I can let my thoughts wander, as opposed to this morning, when I shuffled like some early-to-rise madman with my eyes glued to the treacherous pavements, only occasionally lifting my head to watch the bloke in front march then wobble then flail with desperation), but also, on arrival home, to find that this week's TLS had fallen onto my doormat, and includes two of my poetry reviews, on Carrie Etter's The Tethers, and Lorraine Mariner's Furniture. The issue (no. 5575; February 5 2010) also contains, among other things, two new poems from Simon Armitage, which like all of the recent poems of his which I've spotted here and there (Rialto, Poetry London, and in the excellent online poetry journal Blackbox Manifold), seem to be something of a departure from his characteristic style. Worth checking out.
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Showing posts with label Poetry London. Show all posts
Thursday, 31 January 2013
The Lengthening Winter
Happy to leave work today and find not only that the bastard ice has melted (thus rendering my hilly walk home a pleasurable one in which I can let my thoughts wander, as opposed to this morning, when I shuffled like some early-to-rise madman with my eyes glued to the treacherous pavements, only occasionally lifting my head to watch the bloke in front march then wobble then flail with desperation), but also, on arrival home, to find that this week's TLS had fallen onto my doormat, and includes two of my poetry reviews, on Carrie Etter's The Tethers, and Lorraine Mariner's Furniture. The issue (no. 5575; February 5 2010) also contains, among other things, two new poems from Simon Armitage, which like all of the recent poems of his which I've spotted here and there (Rialto, Poetry London, and in the excellent online poetry journal Blackbox Manifold), seem to be something of a departure from his characteristic style. Worth checking out.
Sunday, 14 October 2012
Forthcoming Readings
Tall Reflections
Tuesday September 15th 2009 7.30pm
continuing the tall-lighthouse cambridge series
alan buckley & ben wilkinson
voluntary contributions - suggested £2
Visual Arts Centre, Christ's College, Cambridge
Coffee-House Poetry at the Troubadour
Old Brompton Road, London SW5
Monday 21st September, 8pm
pick of the crop with emma jones, greta stoddart, mike bartholomew-biggs, olivia cole, martha kapos, ben wilkinson, emily berry and siân hughes with music from singer/guitarist henry fajemirokun
A poetic cornucopia for autumn’s equinox featuring:
* Emma Jones (b. Sydney), first collection The Striped World (Faber, 2009), now Wordsworth Trust Poet-in-Residence;
* Greta Stoddart, Salvation Jane (Anvil, 2008), lives East Devon, teaches for Poetry School and Bath Spa Univ;
* poet & mathematician Mike Bartholomew-Biggs (b. Essex), Tradesman’s Exit (Shoestring, 2009);
* journalist and Gregory-Award winner Olivia Cole, first collection Restricted View (Salt, 2009);
* American Martha Kapos, Poetry London’s Assistant Poetry Editor, second Enitharmon collection Supreme Being;
* Ben Wilkinson (b. Stafford), pamphlet The Sparks (Tall Lighthouse, 2008);
* Emily Berry (b. London, pamphlet Stingray Fevers, Tall Lighthouse, 2008) features in Voice Recognition (Bloodaxe);
* The Missing (Salt, 2009) by Arvon-winner Siân Hughes, is shortlisted for Forward and Guardian first-book awards
* plus music from singer/guitarist Henry Fajemirokun.
Tuesday September 15th 2009 7.30pm
continuing the tall-lighthouse cambridge series
alan buckley & ben wilkinson
voluntary contributions - suggested £2
Visual Arts Centre, Christ's College, Cambridge
Coffee-House Poetry at the Troubadour
Old Brompton Road, London SW5
Monday 21st September, 8pm
pick of the crop with emma jones, greta stoddart, mike bartholomew-biggs, olivia cole, martha kapos, ben wilkinson, emily berry and siân hughes with music from singer/guitarist henry fajemirokun
A poetic cornucopia for autumn’s equinox featuring:
* Emma Jones (b. Sydney), first collection The Striped World (Faber, 2009), now Wordsworth Trust Poet-in-Residence;
* Greta Stoddart, Salvation Jane (Anvil, 2008), lives East Devon, teaches for Poetry School and Bath Spa Univ;
* poet & mathematician Mike Bartholomew-Biggs (b. Essex), Tradesman’s Exit (Shoestring, 2009);
* journalist and Gregory-Award winner Olivia Cole, first collection Restricted View (Salt, 2009);
* American Martha Kapos, Poetry London’s Assistant Poetry Editor, second Enitharmon collection Supreme Being;
* Ben Wilkinson (b. Stafford), pamphlet The Sparks (Tall Lighthouse, 2008);
* Emily Berry (b. London, pamphlet Stingray Fevers, Tall Lighthouse, 2008) features in Voice Recognition (Bloodaxe);
* The Missing (Salt, 2009) by Arvon-winner Siân Hughes, is shortlisted for Forward and Guardian first-book awards
* plus music from singer/guitarist Henry Fajemirokun.
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