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Five new poems by Emily Critchley.

Friday, 27 April 2018

Emily Critchley: ‘Remembering to remember. Remember to pass beyond you into the us
In the winged shadow, the space you will never know.
Taking me from myself, in the path
Which the blind birth of the day has consigned me to.’

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A partial archive of the New Series.

Sunday, 23 April 2023

A partial archive of the New Series, 2009-2023.

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‘What about these birds?’

Wednesday, 20 October 2021

Peter Riley: ‘Prynne’s readership is indeed secure but the extent to which it is academy-centred is questionable, thus whether it is maintained by pressure of secondary attention rather than a particular kind of pressure the texts exert towards the cultivation of the barely legible.’

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Summer 2019: New Poetry.

Sunday, 18 August 2019

Peter Riley: ‘The big show-biz style promotions do often enough bestow their blessings on good poets and one of these poets did take that course. But they cannot be relied on, and the applause echoing round the Royal Festival Hall means no more than that at some pub open-mike series in the far counties.’

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Translations of Shakespeare’s sonnets, and five more poems.

Tuesday, 14 July 2015

Emily Critchley: ‘I wash the dust from my hands and knees,
the sweat from my eyes –
lie down to peel a potato with my head still spinning –
choose a dress from out the periodic table;
forget about poetry.’

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The youth tactic.

Saturday, 27 April 2013

Peter Riley: ‘Could there not be a modern poetry which is as complex and difficult as you like, and as fiercely and specifically directed towards the world’s ills, while inciting emotions of consolation, exhilaration, pride, and so forth, positive emotions, rather than being restricted to pricking the reader with the sharp points of homiletic contradictions? Well indeed there are such, and some of them are in this anthology, among a great deal of studious and sophisticated writing unable to escape from an oppositional despair – a great deal, in fact, of puritanical writing.’

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Peter Hughes and Oystercatcher Press.

Thursday, 31 May 2012

Peter Riley: What is demonstrated by Oystercatcher is the great range possible within a broad concept of the continuity of modernism, which means in effect that whatever the ambience of the poetry there is a strongly verbal textuality. Whatever it is concerned with, however it approaches the world, it takes no words for granted, but turns them on their sides and holds them against the light until the balance of intent and accident is clear.

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Noted: Tough love.

Monday, 9 August 2010

And maybe there are not as many true Christians around as one might have thought.

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