More poetry via Logic + Emotion, originally spotted by The Marketing Minute. Make sure you watch it all the way through… [youtube]AHu5YOogV8I&eurl[/youtube] I don’t know if the writer thought of this as poetry, but it is in my book – except that it probably wouldn’t work in a book. I didn’t get the ‘twist’ until […]
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The Last Three Poetry Books I Bought
Rob MacKenzie asks ‘What were the last three poetry books you bought?’ so here are my latest purchases: 1. Pillars of Salt by Judy Brown – I liked Judy’s poems so much I published three of them in Magma 34, including Passenger. So I was very pleased to see she’s just published this pamphlet – […]
Spam or Poetry?
David Armano has just posted about changing his perception of some spam e-mails from ‘nonsensical gibberish’ to ‘poetry’. It reminded me of the time I used a series of spam e-mails to create a piece for a poetry class assignment. I’m usually unconvinced by ‘found’ poetry (it feels a bit like cheating) but this was […]
The Golden Targe
I’ve started reading Michael Schmidt’s Lives of the Poets as light relief after the academic rigours of my research dissertation. Lots of good things in it, not least of which is the opportunity to fill in a few gaps in my reading. Like William Dunbar – apart from ‘Lament for the Makars’, he’d scarcely registered […]
Magma at Aldeburgh Festival – Postscript
I had a great time at the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival on Saturday, as one of the three Magma editors talking about editing the magazine. Aldeburgh turned out to be a charming seaside town and we found ourselves presenting in the delightful Peter Pears Gallery within a pebble’s-throw of the sea. Rather than just talk about […]