Ira Lightman
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In which a New Zealander writes about a fire likely still burning. From Collected Poems of Bill Manhire, Carcanet Press, 2001. @carcanet.bsky.social @pacificraft.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 1:50 PM
In which a New Zealander writes about a fire likely still burning. From Collected Poems of Bill Manhire, Carcanet Press, 2001. @carcanet.bsky.social @pacificraft.bsky.social
Remember in Working Girl where the well-connected Sigourney Weaver character presents the outsider Melanie Griffith's idea as her own? But Griffith can explain how she arrived at it, and Weaver can't. Shame on Canongate and on her famous defender if still unmoved.
www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...
www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...
I was the other poet in the Len Pennie row: here’s my story
Sarah Doyle’s poem Laika won high praise but when she queried similarities to it with the poem Good Girl she was caught up in a storm of accusation, denial and online vitriol
www.thetimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Remember in Working Girl where the well-connected Sigourney Weaver character presents the outsider Melanie Griffith's idea as her own? But Griffith can explain how she arrived at it, and Weaver can't. Shame on Canongate and on her famous defender if still unmoved.
www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...
www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...
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The Soviet Genocide of Ukrainian literature by Stephen Komarnyckyj, a thread.
In the 1960s, the poet Vasyl Symonenko was walking in Bykivnia forest near Kyiv when he saw some boys playing football with a human skull. (1/26)
In the 1960s, the poet Vasyl Symonenko was walking in Bykivnia forest near Kyiv when he saw some boys playing football with a human skull. (1/26)
December 11, 2024 at 12:38 PM
The Soviet Genocide of Ukrainian literature by Stephen Komarnyckyj, a thread.
In the 1960s, the poet Vasyl Symonenko was walking in Bykivnia forest near Kyiv when he saw some boys playing football with a human skull. (1/26)
In the 1960s, the poet Vasyl Symonenko was walking in Bykivnia forest near Kyiv when he saw some boys playing football with a human skull. (1/26)
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My comment, for @pnreview.bsky.social, on the Len Pennie & Sarah Doyle affair - or Canongagegate, as I like to think of it. Honourable mentions: @naush.bsky.social, @thetimes.com.
Feel free to share, to attack me with your little jelly pitchforks, or to ignore.
www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/rema...
Feel free to share, to attack me with your little jelly pitchforks, or to ignore.
www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/rema...
PN Review Print and Online Poetry Magazine - Remarkable Coincidences - Rory Waterman - PN Review 286
One of the outstanding poetry journals of our time.
www.pnreview.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 2:43 PM
My comment, for @pnreview.bsky.social, on the Len Pennie & Sarah Doyle affair - or Canongagegate, as I like to think of it. Honourable mentions: @naush.bsky.social, @thetimes.com.
Feel free to share, to attack me with your little jelly pitchforks, or to ignore.
www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/rema...
Feel free to share, to attack me with your little jelly pitchforks, or to ignore.
www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/rema...
Theodore Enslin manages a peculiar trick with the Creeleyesque line here, somehow denser than the typical Creeley en pointe. Its vocabulary could be too much from the "well-made" poem. /
November 3, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Theodore Enslin manages a peculiar trick with the Creeleyesque line here, somehow denser than the typical Creeley en pointe. Its vocabulary could be too much from the "well-made" poem. /
Early Carl Rakosi (1903-2004). Spare syntax and Tetris blocky swivel of WCW or Oppen (vs the Tudor sonority of Zukofsky). The vocabulary is baroquer, even though TSE or Stevens' pentameter is definitely broken with.
Ditto early Cid Corman. By and large C and R jettison baroque later.
Ditto early Cid Corman. By and large C and R jettison baroque later.
November 1, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Early Carl Rakosi (1903-2004). Spare syntax and Tetris blocky swivel of WCW or Oppen (vs the Tudor sonority of Zukofsky). The vocabulary is baroquer, even though TSE or Stevens' pentameter is definitely broken with.
Ditto early Cid Corman. By and large C and R jettison baroque later.
Ditto early Cid Corman. By and large C and R jettison baroque later.
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❛ What. / The fuck. / Is this leaf. / Doing. In my–– / And this. / And fucking this.
A poem for your Sunday reset – by Dawn Watson, from Issue 25. 🍂
A poem for your Sunday reset – by Dawn Watson, from Issue 25. 🍂
October 19, 2025 at 3:51 PM
❛ What. / The fuck. / Is this leaf. / Doing. In my–– / And this. / And fucking this.
A poem for your Sunday reset – by Dawn Watson, from Issue 25. 🍂
A poem for your Sunday reset – by Dawn Watson, from Issue 25. 🍂
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I thought this John Berryman poem, exhumed from an archive by Shane Macrae and published in the TLS, was very fine.
October 11, 2025 at 7:24 PM
I thought this John Berryman poem, exhumed from an archive by Shane Macrae and published in the TLS, was very fine.
Poems by Gael Turnbull
October 11, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Poems by Gael Turnbull
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Over 160 calls for literary competitions & submissions including poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, art, photography, & more - contests, literary journals, residencies, bursaries etc - open or with deadlines in October 2025. Please share & best of luck!
www.thisiswordbox.com/wordbox-blog...
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October 4, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Over 160 calls for literary competitions & submissions including poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, art, photography, & more - contests, literary journals, residencies, bursaries etc - open or with deadlines in October 2025. Please share & best of luck!
www.thisiswordbox.com/wordbox-blog...
www.thisiswordbox.com/wordbox-blog...
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The Tetris Effect shows how repetition shapes thoughts, dreams, and mental imagery. Brain scans link it to visual processing and memory. Even people with amnesia dreamed of falling blocks after playing, despite not recalling the game. Fit the pieces together ➡️ w.wiki/PEv
October 1, 2025 at 5:15 PM
The Tetris Effect shows how repetition shapes thoughts, dreams, and mental imagery. Brain scans link it to visual processing and memory. Even people with amnesia dreamed of falling blocks after playing, despite not recalling the game. Fit the pieces together ➡️ w.wiki/PEv
To get a theatre critic to review "a fierce polemic - written in the railway-train rhythm of rollicking anapaestic heptameters" may betray the inability to tell a tetrameter from one's botthole
September 29, 2025 at 6:30 PM
To get a theatre critic to review "a fierce polemic - written in the railway-train rhythm of rollicking anapaestic heptameters" may betray the inability to tell a tetrameter from one's botthole