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Poetry
Is Code Poetry?
If you look at the foot of the wordpress.org homepage you’ll see the slogan ‘CODE IS POETRY’. I’m not a programmer but I like that line – it shows a real passion for creativity and made me look at software in a different light. I get a similar feeling from watching this video. I think […]
Muldoon on MacNeice – Radio 4, 8.00 TONIGHT!
Just found out Paul Muldoon will be trawling through the Louis MacNeice radio archives on Radio 4, 8.00 tonight – In the Dark Tower: Louis MacNeice at the BBC. As well as being fabulous poets, both MacNeice and Muldoon have worked as BBC Radio producers, so it should make for an interesting pairing. I assume […]
McKellen Reads Gawain
I enjoyed the Radio 4 version of Simon Armitage’s Gawain and the Green Knight over Christmas. A lot of actors tend to (over)act poems rather than read them, but I thought Ian McKellen and the other performers made a pretty good job of it. And the sound effects were atmospheric without intruding too much on […]
Simon Armitage on Gawain and the Green Knight
Great article by Simon Armitage in today’s Guardian about translating Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, one of my all-time favourite poems. The Green Man at the October Plenty Festival in Southwark (courtesy of my wife’s blog) I’m a bit of a purist when it comes to translating medieval poems – it’s not that hard […]