The Golden Fleece of Nothingness
Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons, Herbert Draper, The Golden Fleece 1904 Out of curiosity and a certain…
Allusiveness
When I used to play World of Warcraft – happy nights, even if not the best…
Repeat great words repeat them stubbornly
The poem that I have been memorising, learning, getting by heart tonight is Zbigniew Herbert’s “The…
Finnegans Awwwake agoin
Out of a whim, I opened again, as if for the first time, that great scary book…
Berryman and the unpredictability of dream songs
There is a remarkable video somewhere on that shows a television interview with John Berryman, if…
A list of 21 books that shaped me
This list may never end, or so the green dream of the solitary reader goes: 1….
“Ich habe genung” (I have enough)
A change of scene: music. If I have an aim in life, it is to leave…
Immortal diamond
Gerard Manley Hopkins was a poet I encountered on my parents’ shelves as a child. A…
List: my lacunae in Bloom’s Western Canon
I admire Harold Bloom and his scorn for the New Schools of Resentment. I recognise my…
From Seamus Heaney
From Seamus Heaney “Here is the great paradox of poetry and of the imaginative arts in…