I just came across this rather appaeling interview with Hill from last year
at:
http://www.oxonianreview.org/wp/geoffrey-hill/
I love his notion of 'serendipitous reading' as a prefered method of
self-teaching for poets - of course I'm biased because that's exactly how I
taught myself - and share his distaste of creative writing courses - and I
like too his notion of opposing 'plutonic anarchy' - with all the dark
overtones that plutonic has - the armed hell of money.
On 30 March 2010 08:45, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Yes, we looked at Nixon in China too (I've been continually doing courses
> on music in the last couple of years as I can't think of many areas of
> education outside language more necessary to a poet).
>
> Hill has always displayed an acute ear for pararhyme. It is a subdued
> ornament to his bleakness.
> On 30 March 2010 07:58, Alison Croggon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> 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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>> >> >> David Bircumshaw
>> >> >> "A window./Big enough to hold screams/
>> >> >> You say are poems" - DMeltzer
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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
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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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>> >
>>
>>
>>
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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
> twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave
> blog: http://groggydays.blogspot.com/
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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
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