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New content on Patreon
Each month I post something on Patreon, where you can support me for 3 euro a month. This month is a version of a Horace ode: Continue reading
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Poets in Prose: A Review of Holy Fool by Henry Gould and The Making of a Pure Poet by Augustus Young
Henry Gould’s memoir, which makes up the opening three quarters of Holy Fool is the story of a young man quite literally on a mission. Set in and around the early to mid 1970s, the memoir takes off from Gould’s escape from a mental hospital following a breakdown while studying in Providence and charts the… Continue reading
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Selected Haiku 1933–1962, Sanki Saitō, trans Masaya Saito: A Review
Selected Haiku 1933–1962, Sanki Saitō, trans Masaya Saito, Isobar Press, 2023, ISBN 978-4-907359-43-0, £27.19 Sanki Saitō was one of the key figures in the New Rising Haiku movement of the 1930s and 40s, a movement that reacted against the mainstream of Japanese haiku at the time, a mainstream that put more emphasis on obeying the… Continue reading
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This Overflowing Light: Selected Poems, Rin Ishigaki: A Review
This Overflowing Light: Selected Poems, Rin Ishigaki (edited and introduced by Janine Beichman), Isobar Press, 2022, ISBN 978-4-907359-41-6, £15.04 With the publication of Rin Ishigaki’s selected poems, Isobar Press continue my education in 20th century Japanese poetry. Ishigaki’s story is a peculiarly Japanese one, it seems to me. Born in 1920, she seems to have… Continue reading
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106 Early Irish Poems: edited and translated by Geoffrey Squires: A review
106 Early Irish Poems: edited and translated by Geoffrey Squires, 2022, ISBN 979-8525523869, £9.99 Six years ago this month my review of My News for You: Irish Poetry 600 – 1200, edited and translated by Geoffrey Squires was published by the Dublin Review of Books. Squires’ new book, 106 Early Irish Poems, is an expanded… Continue reading
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The Columbia book of Chinese poetry : from early times to the thirteenth century
Edited and translated by Burton Watson Continue reading
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Dewdrops – Brief poems by Kobayashi Issa
Originally posted on Brief Poems: Kobayashi Issa?(小林 一茶, 1763 – 1828) was a? Japanese poet and lay Buddhist priest known for his?haiku?poems and journals. He was born in 1763 with the name Kobayashi Yatarô to a farmer and his wife in the village of Kashiwabara, a village of approximately one hundred houses in the highlands… Continue reading
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Frogs – Basho’s Many English Frogs
Originally posted on Brief Poems: Matsuo Bashō (1644 – 1694), was the most famous poet of the Edo period in Japan and is still renowned as perhaps Japan’s most popular poet. Today he is recognized as the greatest master of haiku (then called hokku). And his most famous haiku, probably the most famous poem in… Continue reading
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Recent Reading November 2021
A Suite of Dances, Mark Weiss, Shearsman Books, 2021, ISBN 9781848617476, £14.95 / $25 Peasant Tower, Tim Allen. Disengagement Books, 2021, ISBN 9781678082826, £8.50 The Other Body, Flo Reynolds, Guillemot Press, 2021, ISBN 978-1-913749-05-7, £10.00 Kusudama, Minoru Yoshioka (trans. Eric Selland), Isobar Press, 2021, ISBN 978-4-907359-37-9, The blurb for Mark Weiss’ A Suite of Dances… Continue reading
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