reading and interacting with poetry
by Jennifer Kilgore-Caradec
Saturday, December 13, 2008
New poem by Liz Lochhead
The Guardian has published "Magpie, pomegranate" by Liz Lochhead in today's paper (December 13, 2008), and the poem can also be read in Robert Crawford (ed.), New Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (Polygon, 2008).
anticucho, n.
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OED Word of the Day: anticucho, n. In Peruvian and Bolivian cookery: a
marinated piece of meat (typically beef heart), grilled on a skewer; a dish
of this.
A real sense of purpose: Life of the Day
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Today's biography from the Oxford DNB: *T'Serclaes, Baroness Elizabeth
Blackall de* [*née *Elizabeth Blackall Shapter; *other married name *Elizabeth
Blac...
Poetry workshop: Skin
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Rachael Boast discovers some ingenious responses to this month's exercise,
and offers some radical feedback
The six poems I settled on for a detailed respo...
rob mclennan : Interview with Laynie Browne
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My interview with Pennsylvania poet Laynie Browne, focusing on her
forthcoming *Apprentice to a Breathing Hand* (Omnidawn, 2025), is now
online at *perio...
Poem of the week: The Reader by Howard Altmann
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Words ‘assemble’ into sense in a private, mysterious act of comprehension
*The Reader*
The book sat on the table
for years
before it opened to a page
exp...
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Reading Peter Schjeldahl Peter Schjeldahl builds paragraphs. Possibly no
other critic now writing in English has such a strong sense of what that
unit of...
THE HIVE: when books get declined
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Firstly, I apologise for not being able to change titles listed in the
sidebar. I've managed to get locked out of my blogger acount, but still
have access ...
JOI web cam Dominatrix
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This cam Goddess is certainly a JOI cam Goddess and she can provide you any
online jerk off instructions you desire. No joke this webcam Dominatrix is
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Glad and Proud to be English Working Class
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Matthew Bannister reminds listeners on BBC Radio 4's Last Word program (July
8 and 10, 2016) that Sir Geoffrey Hill said he was "glad and proud to have
bee...
John McAuliffe on Adam Crothers' 'A Fit Against'
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*A Fit Against* by Adam Crothers
The left hand knows what the right rear leg wants.
The centaur’s cento splices Black Beauty and Frankenstein.
He likes t...
Missel-Child shortlisted for Seamus Heaney Prize
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I’m delighted to announce that my poetry collection Missel-Child is one of
the five titles shortlisted for this year’s Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry
priz...
Live Poetry This Week
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A few live poetry events for this week, across the UK:Thursday: In Bath, at
the BRLSI, Rebecca Goss and Jackie Wills, 8pm start.... Thursday: London's
Bang...
PhD Boot Camp 2 Hours ($59)
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If you ever wanted to know what it’s like to be behind a real lecture
podium and instruct a room full of undergrads with flair and panache, this
is your ...
Gay Male Poetry Post Identity Politics, Part Five
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I am now posting the last of the presentations from my AWP panel on gay
male poetry post politics. Like Aaron Smith, Brian Teare questions the idea
and the...
Jennifer Kilgore-Caradec teaches English at the University of Caen in Normandy. She is co-editor of "La poésie de Geoffrey Hill et la modernité" (L'Harmattan, 2007), "Selected Poems from Modernism to Now" (CSP, 2012), "Poetry & Religion: Figures of the Sacred" (Peter Lang, 2013), "European Voices in the Poetry of W.B. Yeats and Geoffrey Hill" (Peter Lang, 2015).
Her research interests include Contemporary Poetry, British and American Literature, especially Literature in conjunction with Memory, History, Religion, and War.