IN A DISCUSSION programme on the topic “Language and Reinvention”, broadcast on 1st February this year on BBC Radio 4, Vahni Capildeo said, “When I was growing up I had the idea that the poet could be ...

Desnos’ model was Marcel Duchamp and his female persona Rrose Sélavy. Duchamp began publishing aphorisms under her name in 1922. For example: ‘Il faut dire: La crasse du tympan, et non Le Sacre di ...

I DON’T KNOW what the punters will make of this one. Freud’s essay Über Deckerinnerungen of 1899 complete in German but crossed out from beginning to end, followed by “a psychotic translation without ...

Elliott Coleman: 'I think it may be shown that Proust is more Christian than anything else. And further, it seems to me that in his unflagging and almost undeviating search for meaning, reality, and ...

J OSEPH BRODSKY HAD an extraordinary life, yet there is no biography or edition of his letters and all readers lack the essential context for a complete understanding of his poems. The Soviet ...

Wilfrid L. Randell: Gifted with the facility in the spinning of paragraphs, with skill in the devising of plots, with a deft and pretty touch in the delineation of men and women, and with ...

In Cleo 5 à 7 (1974) a friend’s pleasure in being painted naked fascinates Cleo.The film tells the story of a young singer and ‘sex symbol’ who is waiting for the results of a biopsy. The roles being ...

By GILBERT THOMAS. IT IS A hundred years 1 since, unrecognised and unlamented by the world, Shelley was drowned off Leghorn [in 1822]. The “facts” of his life – strangely wooden word when applied to ...

Apocalypse: an anthology Edited by James Keery. Carcanet 2020 | 430pp paperback | £20.00 $23.99 IT’S NOT AN anthology of poems by the small number of poets who subscribed to a programme they called ...

By PETER McCAREY. I FIRST VISITED Macau in 1996, hydrofoil from Hong Kong.Late morning in the undercroft of the Hotel Lisboa, a brutalist bijou that stamped the humble skyline of the era, a young ...

Alan Wall: 'Had Le Corbusier been given his way in the early twentieth century, then the Parisian Babel would have been translated entirely into Esperanto; a modern synthetic language of the ...

W hat is the “fate of difficulty in the poetry of our time”? Charles Altieri and Nicholas Nace gather the thoughts of twenty-six leading poetry critics on this question, each of them discussing the ...