She's a very fine librettist. Nixon in China is impressive too. Fwiw,
I'm a big admirer of that translation of Brand - one of the few verse
versions that actually works. No doubt they give each other prosodic
advice.
xA
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 5:51 PM, David Bircumshaw
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Yup, his second wife, since 1987, as far as I know they haven't divorced.
> Last I heard she'd become an Anglican chaplain at Trinity Cambridge. I was
> looking at the text she did for Adams on a music course late last year: the
> para-rhyming style reminded me of Hill's version of Brand.
>
> On 29 March 2010 23:51, Alison Croggon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Was it? He's married to Alice Goodman? I had no idea.
>>
>> Not, mind you, that it has anything to do with anything. But she's
>> practically a Communist!!!! She wrote about Mao and the PLO and
>> everything!
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 9:37 AM, David Bircumshaw
>> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> > ... while it was Hill's wife who wrote the libretto for John Adams'
>> morality
>> > opera on the Achille Lauro ...
>> >
>> > On 29 March 2010 23:33, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Wait till they rediscover the accusations about Mercian Hymns echoing
>> Enoch
>> >> Powell's speech in the Midland Hotel.
>> >>
>> >> Myself, I don't think Hill did intend a link, but anyone who goes around
>> >> giving his books epigraphs by C.H.Sisson is living dangerously when Tom
>> >> Paulin's around ...
>> >>
>> >> On 29 March 2010 22:39, Alison Croggon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> Wow. I mean, wow.
>> >>>
>> >>> "Violent new face of poetry"? One of the nation's "most divisive
>> poets"?
>> >>>
>> >>> Mind you, the whole article is a beat-up. That journalist got out the
>> >>> mixmaster good and proper.
>> >>>
>> >>> xA
>> >>>
>> >>> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 7:13 AM, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]>
>> >>> wrote:
>> >>> > Doug,
>> >>> >
>> >>> > How could you read the Ind online and not tell us about this?! -
>> >>> >
>> >>> >
>> >>>
>> http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/is-this-the-violent-
>> >>> > new-face-of-poetry-at-oxford-1926988.html
>> >>> >
>> >>> > Max
>> >>> >
>> >>> > Quoting Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>:
>> >>> >
>> >>> >> I just read this, but what does anyone over there know about her?
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >>
>> >>>
>> http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/a-life-of-rhyme-
>> >>> > kate-tempests-poetrymusic-fusion-1929779.html
>> >>> >
>> >>> >
>> >>> >
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>> > You say are poems" - DMeltzer
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>> >
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>
>
>
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> David Bircumshaw
> "A window./Big enough to hold screams/
> You say are poems" - DMeltzer
> Website and A Chide's Alphabet
> http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
> The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
> Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw
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