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from White Ivory, chapters 15 & 16

< chapters 13 & 14 A Fortnightly Serial By ALAN WALL. • Chapter 15 Absent Voices, Absent Faces ILL GOT BACK to his flat in Oswestry that Friday to find the light on his answering machine flashing. ‘It’s Paul.’ He dialled 1471 and for the first time was given a number. He pressed 3 and […]

from White Ivory, chapters 13 & 14

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A sowing of the sky.

Nine fragments for Juan Carlos Ceci. By Franca Mancinelli. Translated from the Italian by John Taylor.   he rain—dense fabric in which we are generated from a warm color and a cold color. la pioggia—tessuto fitto dove siamo generati da un colore caldo e un colore freddo. ◊ ater bears fruit on the picked stems […]

from ‘The Runiad’ books 5 & 6

< from Books 3 & 4 A Fortnightly Serial. By ANTHONY HOWELL. ◊ ANTHONY HOWELL writes: My own romantic notion of myself has encouraged me to attempt an epic. It will have 24 books and be the same length as the Odyssey. Each book will be approximately 24 pages long, with three seven-line verses per page. […]

from White Ivory, chapters 11 & 12

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from ‘On the Road to Lviv’.

By CHRISTOPHER MERRILL. ◊ he faithful chanting in Armenian At vespers in Ivano-Frankivsk, shaped The way I posed for a photograph outside The church—between a pair of Christmas trees Festooned with lights, which framed a cross or khachkar, Altar, and iconostasis sculpted Out of a block of river ice. Natalya Would add this photograph to […]

On the Difficulty of Reading Susan Howe’s

Articulation of Sound Forms in Time ◊ By Peter Middleton.   hat is the “fate of difficulty in the poetry of our time”? Charles Altieri and Nicholas Nace gather the thoughts of twenty-six leading poetry critics on this question, each of them discussing the issue in relation to a single recent poem. It’s a fascinating […]

from White Ivory, chapters 9 & 10

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A stubble like stars.

(after Jaccottet) By PETER LARKIN. ◊ had been reading Philippe Jaccottet in French and English for many years, so was particularly moved to come across his last published poems (La Clarté Notre-Dame) in the version translated by John Taylor. I wondered whether I could work with these texts in their English form in some way […]

from ‘The Runiad’ books 3 & 4

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from White Ivory, chapters 7 & 8

< chapters 5 & 6    chapters 9 & 10 > A Fortnightly Serial By ALAN WALL. • Chapter Seven Readings he first thing Will did when he got back home was to take his one remaining copy of Kicking Away the Ladder from the shelf. He stood by the window and turned it over […]

Alice B. and Gertrude in their photographs.

and two more new poems. By 3/4KYMBERLY TAYLOR. ♦ Alice B. and Gertrude in Their Photographs ear T, my sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet tea, into our photographs this hard line of distance, simply! Just between us and all ours. A photographing we will go, Basket along, dear pooch with curlicues. Rue de Fleurus’ garden […]

from White Ivory, chapters 5 & 6

< chapters 3 & 4        chapters 7 & 8 > A Fortnightly Serial By ALAN WALL. • Chapter Five Will’s Lecture E HAD FASTENED up on the wall, as usual, his reproduction of Francis Bacon’s painting of Miss Muriel Belcher. And alongside it his Head VI of 1948, one of those human mouths […]

The goddess of emptiness.

By Jean Frémon. Translated by John Taylor.   E WERE ALONE in the gardens of the hotel, awaiting fruit cocktails that were not arriving. After the many years that I have come to this country, I should know that time is not the same here as elsewhere, that showing one’s impatience is the height of […]

Carrying the past.

Fortnightly Review Film Commentary.  The Afterlight by Charlie Shackleton 1.37:1 | mono | black & white | 82 minutes an interview By Simon Collings. • harlie Shackleton’s film The Afterlight is a collage of clips from hundreds of films from around the world. It brings together a cast of actors all of whom are no […]