I Predict a Riot – Helen Mort’s Division Street
In Tony Harrison’s v., the Vs sprayed on the Harrison family grave in Holbeck Cemetery, Leeds, ‘are all the versuses …
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Almost Lost My Mind – Melissa Lee-Houghton’s Beautiful Girls
In London: The Biography, Peter Ackroyd writes that ‘London drives some of its citizens mad. A psychiatric survey in the …
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 …
The shiny new Aldeburgh Poetry Festival Blog
Poor Rude Lines will continue to offer its regular service. However, as Blogger in Residence at this year’s Aldeburgh Poetry …
The filth and the fury – Tony Harrison’s v.
As BBC Radio 4 broadcasted a 25th anniversary version of .v, read by Harrison himself, the event rekindled the media’s …
Wish You Were Here – Tamar Yoseloff’s The City With Horns
It doesn’t take long to contract cultural flu in Rome. ‘That fountain’s by Bernini, you say? Show me one which …
Rogues’ Gallery
How many of my muses can you name? Thank you to my brother, Peter James Field, for the banner which …
The trouble with poetry – how we get teaching it wrong
‘Would anyone care to join me / in flicking a few pebbles in the direction / of teachers who are …
Copyright
The plan had been to present a poem, followed by a couple of paragraphs of thoughts. Yes, I confess that …
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