Pamphlet power
If you’re accessing the Aldeburgh Festival blog through my personal blog, then I’ll keep posting links to it here. This …
Category Archives: 2013
Why spoken word poetry matters
Last night’s readings by Olivia McCannon, Katha Pollitt and Robin Robertson plumbed the depths and heights of the …
Alison Brackenbury’s Bath cubes on the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival Blog
I’ve been writing little close readings of poems by the poets featuring in the twenty-fifth Aldeburgh Poetry Festival since August, …
Living Doll – Robin Robertson’s Hill of Doors
For reasons of economy, our hair was cut in the kitchen with a bowl and scissors. Well, until a slip …
Terrance Hayes’ Friday: Poem on the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival Blog
The Poetry Trust’s Aldeburgh Poetry Festival Blog has updated with my close reading of Terrance Hayes’ Friday: Poem, and you can find the …
Not Fade Away – Nikola Madzirov’s Remnants of Another Age
My great-grandfather, who hung through my childhood at the centre of a shrine tended by my great-aunt, now hangs in …
Run with the dogs tonight – Luke Samuel Yates’ The pair of scissors that could cut anything
Ann Summers had nothing on our neighbour’s washing line. All the usual flimsy suspects were pegged up flaccid in a …
Robert Wrigley’s Soundings on the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival Blog
The Poetry Trust’s Aldeburgh Poetry Festival Blog has updated with a close reading of Robert Wrigley’s Soundings, and you can …
D. Nurkse’s The Past on the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival Blog
Regular readers will know that I try to avoid dishing out other people’s poems in full. Doing that would hardly …
Warm Leatherette: Robert Wrigley’s The Church of Omnivorous Light
The Church of Omnivorous Light, Robert Wrigley’s first UK publication, spans a lifetime’s writing and nine collections. At times, I …
Poor Rude Lines 