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Lawrence Durrell’s poetry doesn’t always work for me. I like the fact there’s plenty to unpack in them, though many of the references are often unfamiliar to me. Their chief attraction for me is the beauty of the language Durrell used. He had a knack of painting an image with just the right words. Here [...]
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Jupiter magazine’s next issue, #30 Hermippe, is due to be published any day soon. It contains my Jupiter Quartet of poems… and I can’t think of a more appropriate place for them to appear.
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This last year, I’ve had an occasional bash at writing poetry. I don’t think I’m any good, despite having read quite a bit of it recently (see here, for example; and here). What I – try to – write is science fiction poetry. Because, well, I like science fiction. And it’s as fit a subject [...]
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Today is Remembrance Day, so it seems entirely appropriate that I post a poem by John Jarmain. Tel-el-Eisa Tel-el-Eisa is Jesus’ hill, Or so they say: There the bitter guns were never still, Throwing up yellow plumes of sand by day And piercing the night across. There the desert telephone’s long lonely line expires, Ends [...]
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At the beginning of this year, I bought an anthology of World War II poetry on eBay, Return to Oasis: War Poems and Recollections from the Middle East 1940 – 1946, edited by Victor Selwyn, Erik de Mauny, Ian Fletcher, GS Fraser and John Waller, and published in 1980. Unfortunately, I’d misread the description of [...]
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Some poems you fall in love with on first reading. Here’s the opening verse of one that did it for me recently: Her sea limps up here twice a day And sigh by leaden sigh deposes Crude granite heft and sponges Sucked smooth as foreheads and noses; No footprints dove the labouring sand, For terrene [...]
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