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Rostrum Kevin Saving's Notes Towards a Definition of Poetry
Latest Review Alan Morrison on Andy Croft's Sticky
New Review Alan Morrison on David Kynaston's Austerity Britain
Latest instalment of Peter Street's novel-in-progress, Flamenco Dancer
New Life Writing part one of The Never-Ending Quest - a Memoir by John Horder
extracts from Hazel Roy's eye-opening account of child labour in Three Months in Nepal
Retrospect John Horder's Obituary for Naomi Lewis
New Section Palaeo Poetics - Kevin Saving puts past poets and their poems under the microscope
New John Horder on Rosemary Tonks, Pema Chodron, Jeremy Lewis, Wendy Cope,
The Letters of Penelope Fitzgerald, the First Female Poet Laureate, Michael Frayn and Rowan Williams
Theatre Reviews Alan Morrison on Lee Hall's The Pitmen Painters
and James Morrison on David Hare's Gethsemane
Most Recent Poems R.A. Allen, CB Anderson, Amelia Arcamone-Makinano, Keith Armstrong, Rudy Baron, Richard Barrett, Sandy Benitez, Mike Berger, Peter Branson, Alan Britt, Adrian Brown, Leon Brown,
Richard Copeland, Bernadette Cremin, Andy Croft, Alan Dunnett, Justin Ehrlich, Neil Ellman,
James Fountain, Alex Galper, Joseph Goosey, Mia Hart-Allison, Anthony Hitchin, Nigel Holt, John Horder,
Kathryn Jacobs, Michael Lee Johnson, Norman Jope, Pycho Kanev, Rose Kelleher, David Kessel,
Karl Koweski, David LaBounty, Roberta Lawson, Richard Layton, Robert Lietz, Michael McAloran,
David McLean, Jonathan Mackenzie, Donal Mahoney, Steve Mann, Joshua Meander, Elfriede Mollon,
Adam Moorad, John O'Donoghue, Ruary O'Siochain, Sergio A. Ortiz, Neal Pearce, J.R. Pearson, Kenneth Pobo, Frank Praeger, Gillian Prew, Sally Richards, Anick Roschi, Marybeth Rua-Larsen, Kevin Saving, Constance Stadler, Paul Stevens, Carrie Viens, Lee Whensley, Julie Whitby, Petra Whiteley
New Prose Poems and Poetic Prose from Mike Berger, Christopher Capelluto & Carrie Viens
New Prose from Barry Basden, Jane Bellis, Leon Brown, Carole Hamilton, Jan Harris, Anthony Hitchin, Calum Kerr, Karl Koweski, Fiona Linday, Graeme McCann, Kevin Saving, Peter Street, Petra Whiteley
Saving Grace Kevin Saving on new Thomas Hardy Selected; Burns and Poe; the Virago anthologies;
Bundle O'Tinder by Rose Kelleher; A Walk Around The Lakes by Hunter Davies
New Translations and John Horder with a poem from the Hungarian after Attila Jozsef
transnational
oppositional poetry, prose, polemic
radical voices for
radical times
Modern English polite society...
seems to me as corrupt as consciousness of culture and absence of honesty can make it.
A canting, lie-loving, fact-hating, scribbling, chattering, wealth-hunting, pleasure-hunting, celebrity-hunting mob
George Bernard Shaw
An Unsocial Socialist (1883)
non-conformist poetry, prose, polemic
The want of poetical power is the impelling force in the case of most versifiers. They would fain be poets, and imagine that the best way is to try to write poetry and to publish what they write. They will never see their mistake. Equus asinus still believes that the possession of an organ of noise is sufficient, with a little practice, to enable him to sing like a nightingale.
John Davidson (1857 – 1909)
The only reason they have not monopolized the daylight and the air is that it is
not possible to do it … Robert Tressell, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (1910)
