Monthly Archives: March 2011
Durs Grünbein and the vocation of poetry
Hello, this is me speaking to you from Sunday evening, which should now, by my calculations, be three days ago. I am putting up a little post on Durs Grünbein now, so that if I have a second at some … Continue reading
Filed under poetry
A Forbidding Spring: you say that now…
Well, just bringing some literature into the equation for a minute. Politics, poetry, political poetry… There are people who say that poetry nowadays isn’t political, that we’ve lost that thing they call the “public dimension,” that poetry now is all … Continue reading
This is the week that is
And so begins the last week of work. Not mine, but an awful lot of people. I’m sure this is the last week of work for many of the 3-500,000 who wrecked their thighs walking at an unnaturally slow shuffle … Continue reading
“Audacious, bold, puissant and heroical”*
Okay, I never made it to Hyde Park. I missed UKUncut’s spot of unrest at Fortnum & Masons, the mini-kettles after dark in the West End, and the bin fire in Jermyn St. I didn’t see the Trojan Horse that … Continue reading
March 26: poet against the cuts
Taking a breather from the march, which I just spent about two hours with. It is a panoply of Britain (including many foreigners, as Britain has always done): looking over the river from the Royal Festival Hall at about 12.30, I … Continue reading
Filed under important things, politics
