Month: May 2025
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Navigator of Neglected Territories: David Graeber (1961-2020)
Andy Hedgecock writes an appreciation of the works of David Graeber (1961-2020). A dissident writer who in Utopia of Rules tackles the factors that lead us to create and sustain rule-based systems and – in turn – considers the tendency of those systems to determine the way we use our tools and technologies.
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The hedgehog and the goose – Shaun Belcher
ECOLOGICAL THEMES IN THE POETRY OF ALASDAIR MACLEAN AND WILLIAM NEILL. “At heart no flyer, I bristle timidly when touched. When the ice comes I retreat beneath it. I choose at last hedgehogs.” Thus Alasdair Maclean ends his poem ’Hedgehogs and Geese’ in his first published book of poems ‘From the Wilderness’ which has ‘Poetry…
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Roy Marshall – Three Poems
Definition ‘Elon Musk’s appearance at a Trump rally this afternoon is garneringsignificant attention due to a one-armed gesture.’BBC News A tool for digging. A sharp metal blade attached to a long handle.Often has footrests to help drive it into the ground.The Irish version is thinner, and the sharpshooter,used for cutting post holes, is long and narrow.The fishtail with its flared triangular head,…
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REVIEW: Blossom Hibbert
REVIEW: suddenly, it’s now by Blossom Hibbert (Leafe Press) There is a strand of poetry, among a certain demographic of its twenty-something practitioners, which is increasingly informed by workshops, degree courses, social media echo chambers and an almost aggressive approach to networking and self-publicity. Homogeneity ensues; a sense pervades of poetry being written to a…
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Friday the 13th -Lucy Bellingham
Whither Jason? – The Drama and Dichotomy of Friday the 13th Sean S. Cunningham’s Friday the 13th might not have been the first slasher – not by a long chalk – but there’s a strong case to be made that it was the first to consolidate the structure, aesthetic and audience expectations of the sub-genre…
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Leanne Moden – Two Poems
Vacuum Cleaner, 2123 after Thomas Lux More kleptocrat than civil servant, she devoured tangled hair cobwebs, choked down our discarded essence, tarnished pennies rattling in her cavernous belly. Crushed Loestrin teased from carpet weave,moths pulverised by her tough plastic throat. Constellations of half-moon clippingschewed from our bleeding fingers, busted earring backs & bent paperclips caught against her Hoover…
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The Symphonies of Hans Werner Henze – Jonathan Taylor
Gesamtkunstwerk in the Head: The Symphonies of Hans Werner Henze For all its claims to absolute music, the symphony has always been a hybrid – maybe even omnivorous – musical genre, constantly renewing itself by fusing with other genres and art-forms. Haydn frequently employs folk songs in his symphonies, like many composers after him; Mozart’s symphonies…
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Anthony Owen – Three Poems
Sunrise over Israel Sunrise with its loose threadshurt my eyes oh yellow starYou set last night head separated with Jupiter her deep scar visible onlyto those who looked hardthrough the looking glass. I can see new houses emerge from ruinsIt looks like a bomb site but like moonscape GazaNot otherworldly as headphones disconnected with a…
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Recent Translations of Yiannis Ritsos
REVIEW: Recent Translations of Yiannis Ritsos Alan Baker In Secret: Versions of Yiannis Ritsos by David Harsent (Enitharmon Press) A Broken Man in Flower: Versions of Yiannis Ritsos by David Harsent (Bloodaxe Books) Yiannis Ritsos Among His Contemporaries, ed. Marjorie Chambers (Colenso Books) Monochords by Yiannis Ritsos, tr. Paul Merchant, linocuts by Chiara Ambrosio (Prototype…