I found a fantastic new blog yesterday, We Make Money Not Art, which introduced me to the PC for Poets – a new kind of tablet PC designed by Crispin Jones: This tablet pc is designed to create a feeling of emotional attachment – it marries elements of traditional craftwork and pattern design with contemporary […]
Poetry
Craig Raine on Ted Hughes
The Times has a great memoir by Craig Raine – The Double Exposure of Ted Hughes. It’s quite long, so I’ve reluctantly torn myself away from it halfway through – this is my reminder to go back and finish it later. As well as some good reminiscences, it contains the news (to me) that there […]
Magma 36 Out Now
Magma 36 is out now – we’re delighted to welcome Anne-Marie Fyfe as Guest Editor for this issue. She has selected poems around the theme of ‘Inscapes’, including new poems by Seamus Heaney, Billy Collins and Medbh McGuckian. As well as the star names listed above, Magma 36 continues our tradition of publishing many new […]
Political Poetry
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 […]
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 – […]