Tuesday, November 19, 2019

In Memory of Barry Parsons Lost to the New South Wales Fires, November 2019

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for Bazra - poet, activist and editor of TWOT - who was burnt to death near his shed in NSW, far away from here Today hottest record ...
Saturday, September 21, 2019

The American President Hosts a State Dinner for the Australian Prime Minister in the Rose Garden, 2019

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White-tailed Cockatoo Adjustment Villanelle The prime minister of Australia crawls on hands and knees to the presid...
Friday, September 13, 2019

Extinction Rebellion is Too Much About Image and Not Enough About Its Own Impacts

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I was deeply disturbed to see this in the press. The 'greening' of the Limmat River in Zurich as an 'event', as an act of p...
Tuesday, July 2, 2019

Alfonsina Storni, The Rosebush's Restlessness

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This Spanish-language poet is a new discovery for me, though she's very famous in Argentina and among Spanish readers. This little poem ...

Rilke and Unicorns (3rd instalment)

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Tim this morning reminded me of Paul Muldoon's brilliant translation (in his book  Hay ) of the Rilke unicorn sonnet I posted about last...
Thursday, June 27, 2019

Rilke & Unicorns (2nd instalment)

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Here is another Rilke unicorn poem, following on from yesterday's . Traditional sonnet rhyme scheme has been dropped (much as I used a c...
Wednesday, June 26, 2019

Rilke, Ladies and Unicorns: La Dame à la licorne

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I've said it before : Rilke in translation is often misrepresented. And with the advent of the so-called "inescapable unicorn trend...