A Medley. from Then and Now – Opus 1. By W.D. JACKSON. (Illustration by Alan Dixon) • T HE MIDDLE SECTION of this poem is a translation of Act III, sc. 4–7 of G.E. Lessing’s Nathan der Weise (1779).

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 ...

Indeed, their argument seems to go, in effect — or even ‘objectively’ — it is Russia and the US that are really fighting here, with no real ‘Ukrainians’ in this essentially empty, terra nullius.In ...

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 ...

The Mottram Dossier. By JEFF HILSON and STEPHEN McGARTY. • T his article concerns the Radical Poetics seminars given by Eric Mottram at King’s College, University of London between 1990-1995, with a ...

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 ...