Category Archives: Book reviews

Envisioning the Velvet Underground – Mark Wilson on Jeremy Reed’s ‘Black Russian’

Posted on May 13, 2011 by

Black Russian – Out-Takes from the Airmen’s Club 1978-79 Jeremy Reed (Waterloo Press, 2010) The poet Jeremy Reed is something of an anomaly. On the one hand he has deliberately fostered his own populist cult-of-personality by being an inimitable performing-artist … Continue reading →

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The Unleashment; “Ex Nihilo” by Paul Stubbs, “Clarities” by Blandine Longre

Posted on March 13, 2011 by

Black Herald Press 2010 Paul Stubbs introduces his new long poem Ex Nihilo by explaining that “this is a poem of a poem happening, with the very first ‘form,’ a creation ‘felt’ by me into existence.” Indeed, the poem, as … Continue reading →

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Review of “Anticline” by Clayton Eshleman

Posted on March 13, 2011 by

Anticline Clayton Eshleman Black Widow Press, 2010 – 181 pages Clayton Eshleman is one of America’s most pivotal visionary poets writing today, a word-creator and a language inventor whose work has delved deeper than nearly anyone else into the strata … Continue reading →

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The Death of the Gods – Review of “The Icon Maker” by Paul Stubbs

Posted on December 3, 2010 by

by Andrew O’Donnell, Dec 2010 The journey of Paul Stubbs’s second book of poems The Icon Maker is the journey that awaits us on the other side of our conventional religious and atheistic faiths, it is a book that deals … Continue reading →

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The Alchemy of Love – Guido Cavalcanti; Then and Now

Posted on November 14, 2010 by

Complete Poems – Guido Cavalcanti translated by Anthony Mortimer, OneWorld Classics, 2010. Cavalcanti Poems (1912) in Translations of Ezra Pound, Faber, 1953, 1984. Guido Cavalcanti should be a household name in the canon of world poetry. He was Dante’s ‘first … Continue reading →

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Dante’s Inferno – A New Bilingual Edition

Posted on November 14, 2010 by

Translated by J.G. Nichols and published by OneWorld Classics   An article on a new reissue of Dante’s Inferno seems, at first, to be redundant in two senses; firstly one might presume that, with the multitude of translations already offered … Continue reading →

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Return to the Light: “Bright Dusky Bright” by Eeva Liisa Manner

Posted on October 4, 2010 by

Translated by Emily Jeremiah – Waterloo Press 2009 When reading the poems  of Eeva-Liisa Manner, and discovering  the landscapes that gave birth to them, I am reminded of these lines by the great Finnish/Swedish poet Edith Sodergran, lines in fact … Continue reading →

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A House for the English Mythologies; Review of “Blood/Sugar” by James Byrne

Posted on October 4, 2010 by

This almost-recent release of James Byrne’s new book follows on from Passages of Time, released seemingly many moons ago, although it may be worth stating that ‘follows on from’ gives only partial illumination on what Byrne is up to these … Continue reading →

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The Metaphysical Squinting of the Psyche of London; Five Journal Entries in Lieu of a Review of Niall McDevitt’s “b/w”

Posted on October 4, 2010 by

1 On a press not very familiar to me (and therefore immediately intriguing) comes a rather large form book of poems named simply b/w (Black and white? An associational obsession with Blake? The curtness of an abbreviation? A mystery skirted … Continue reading →

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