Looking back
I have now posted for the last time to the 2013 Aldeburgh Poetry Festival blog. Thanks to The Poetry Trust …
Tag Archives: Aldeburgh Poetry Festival
Since the wall fell
Here’s the latest instalment of the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival blog.
Pamphlet power
If you’re accessing the Aldeburgh Festival blog through my personal blog, then I’ll keep posting links to it here. This …
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, …
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 …
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 …
Voulez-vous coucher avec moi? Shazea Quraishi’s The Courtesans Reply
When I admit to reading almost nothing in translation, people are unimpressed, and I admit it: they have a good …
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 …
Poor Rude Lines 