How Can You Read Poetry?
How do you read poetry? I’ve recently been wrestling with this, a question that came up unexpectedly. Here’s the strategy I’ve found.
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Michael Rosen and Many Different Kinds of Love
A review of Many Different Kinds of Love by Michael Rosen and some observations on the political situation in Britain at the time of writing.
How Do You Read Poetry? A Village Life
Reading A Village Life by Louise Glück, I’m consciously trying to read it in a different way from the way I usually read poetry books.
Published Poet – Flying with Icarus
Flying with Icarus. For the second time this year I find myself a published poet. This posts relates the stories behind my four poems published in The Poet
Selected Poems In Flanders Fields – two reviews
A sort of review of Selected Poems of Robert Graves and In Flanders Fields, two books I’ve been reading in tandem since the weekedn fo 11th November 2018.
Flanders fields, poppies and iconography
Of Flanders fields, poppies and iconography – something of a ramble, something of a rant and all inspired by the recent Armistice memorial events.
In the laundry
In which, doing the laundry, I catch sight of my younger self, struggle with Monty Pythonesque machinery and read poetry.
Crowd Funding – The Alexander Pope method
An introduction to crowd funding from the perspective of an independent author, referencing Kickstarter and Unbound but mostly Alexander Pope.
Visions, revisions, toast and tea At the Quill
Visions and revisions: this article describes some of the prevarication and development that went into the separate At the Quill website, now reunited here. There’s also a nod to the taking of a toast and tea.