Tag Archives: poetry

Newly Discovered Poem of Fernando Pessoa’s Caeiro

Posted on May 13, 2011 by

I enjoy heaven because I don’t believe that it’s infinite. With me there is no beginning or end. I don’t believe in the infinite, I don’t believe in eternity. I believe space starts somewhere and ends somewhere And that this … Continue reading →

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Nancy Meets the Mômo – Clayton Eshleman

Posted on April 16, 2011 by

Antonin Artaud (1896-1948) is one of the greatest examples in art of the imaginative retrieval of a life that was beyond repair. What he ultimately accomplished should bear a torch through the dark nights of all our souls. Between 1969 … 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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“New Poetry” – Prose Fragment by Cesar Vallejo

Posted on March 12, 2011 by

The title new poetry has been granted to those verses whose lexicon includes the words: cinema, motor, horsepower, aircraft, radio, jazz-band, wireless communication, and, on the whole, to all those who give a voice to science and contemporary industry, even … Continue reading →

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Late Article by Pier Paolo Pasolini – “Is this a Military Coup D’Etat? I Know…”

Posted on December 4, 2010 by

[This prose journalism was written in Italy's "Corriere della Sera" (a major left-leaning newspaper) on 14th November 1974. Pasolini died just under a year later, on 2nd November 1975. The mystery as to the motives behind his murder, and those involved, … 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 Mirage of Poetic Evolution in Britain Since Eliot

Posted on December 3, 2010 by

by Paul Stubbs (article first published in 3:AM magazine, August 2009, re-printed here with minor amendments) When does poetry begin to capitulate? turn back in on itself? When it fails to assimilate the new, the foreign, when in the words … Continue reading →

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Niall McDevitt – “The One Rule is Never to Fall in Love”

Posted on November 14, 2010 by

In this secret world, caught between the confusions, my superiors have made me feel too self-important, underpaid but with theoretical blank cheque in the cosmos within the country within the city. In the circus of deception the audience faces the … 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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