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Late February notebook
Aesthetics of Creating Something This doesn’t just happen: It happens to you. Kenneth Koch, from One Train, p.64 ∞ ‘Even now, one rarely hears of people achieving anything unless first they stumble in...
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UCU Strike Poems 10 – from A New Guide, by Kenneth Koch
from A New Guide 7 Look at this arch. It is part of a building more than seven hundred years old. Every day from the time he was eighteen, probably, the man who made it worked in stone. Sometimes he...
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Towards a model of poetry writing development
As promised last week, here is my presentation of the paper I co-wrote with Sue Dymoke in which we argue on the importance of social networks in poets’ development. I shall present this paper at the...
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Naomi Jaffa’s ‘Some of the Usual’ (LentBlog28)
Today is Saturday, and as with other Saturdays this Lent I am reposting a favourite blog post from my archive. This poem is by Naomi Jaffa. I must have read it for the first time more than fifteen...
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and (Dear James)
and (Dear James) it occurs to me now, just thinking out loud, that in a way Kenneth and Frank actually were Twitter, ahead of their time I mean, obviously, the jokey, in the moment repetitions and...
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Happy James Schuyler Day
To celebrate what I now think of as James Schuyler day, I am reposting June 30, 1974. Happy James Schuyler day everyone! June 30, 1974 for Jane and Joe Hazan Let me tell you that this weekend...
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Lifesaving poems of summer
As the summer holiday season takes hold, I am posting an old blog post or two from the archive. See you on the other side and Bonnes vacances! — Now that we might finally be getting one, I found...
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