Just to say that I have decided my holiday is over so I
have re-subscribed. I am currently three books thru LOTR
as I re-read it after 40 years and I am deliberately stretching
out my reading to make it last. Christmas films were Harry Potter
and FOTR and last week I saw Amelie.
POetry news seems to be that Robert Minhinnick has got the
editorship of POetry Review from the Autumn and I expect
Sebastian Barker to be confirmed at LOndon Magazine.
And today I found that Claudia from Germany has set up
an Edwin Morgan website at http://www.edwinmorgan.com
Unfortunately Carcanet and Mariscat have been very niggardly
in the poems they have releases. I see Sheenagh Pugh was
there before me.
The Scottish POetry Library magazine and Poetry REview
arrived today. As usual POetry REview was very dull but
Dorothy Nimmo got a plug amonst some heavyweights as
a neglected deceased talent. I have a selection of her
work at http://www.bath.ac.uk/~exxdgdc/poetry/poets/nimmo1.html
She was a good poet with a very interesting life behind her
but I wouldnt call her a heavyweight. Sheenagh Pugh dissects
Frieda Hughes. And David Harsent, whom I appreciated twenty
years ago, calls the British Poets 'no-hopers' in a letter
re Keith Tuma's eccentric anthology. Fred Beake points out
that nowadays David Harsent is a no-hoper himself. He devotes
his writing to opera libretti (Harrison Birtwhistle's Gawain
etc). No disrespect to Alison but he doesnt seem to do poems
any more.
I thought the little Scottish magazine livelier. But then
Duncan Glen has always been a fine editor although not much
of a poet.
And I forgot John REdmond and DAvid Wheatley were in POetry Review
but it was the VERY young Irish writers who were getting the big
plug although Roddy Lumsden was full of praise for the Thumbscrew
crowd.
But there were no poems to remember anywhere.
Douglas Clark, Bath, England mailto: [log in to unmask]
Lynx: Poetry from Bath .......... http://www.bath.ac.uk/~exxdgdc/lynx.html
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