Weekend Gloss: Arthuriana
Of the two parts of this, the second is I think the better. The poem’s quite old now, and I made a single change to it in posting it here: replacing “ichor” with “blood” (Geoffrey Hill uses “ichor” in...
View ArticleWeekend Gloss: Homage to Douglas Clark
The late Douglas Clark was a poet who lived in Bath. Of himself he said “my health, both mental and physical, has never been good and my life has been troubled”. In the best of his poetry, the terrors...
View ArticleWeekend Gloss: “Notes like rain outpouring”
“Notes like rain outpouring” is one of the 50 50-word poems collected in Half Cocks. Like a number of other other poems in that series it’s a tribute to a deceased person, in this case the guitarist...
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Weekend Gloss: “For amusement, re-run the delectable nude scene”
The Spirit Zone was a sequence of 14-line poems that were not sonnets, which I wrote in the run up to the Millennium celebrations and the opening of what was then known as the Millennium Dome. (The...
View ArticleWeekend Gloss: “Understand Less”
After Slumber is an unfinished sequence about the history of civil disorder in the UK between 1979 and 2009 – “thirty years of hurt”, as another of the poems in the sequence has it. I had a notion of...
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