Robin Saikia: ‘Friuli was, in the old days, one of the furthest-flung mainland dominions of the Venetian empire — and therefore its cities, towns, villas and churches bear unmistakeable traces of Venice. Yet since Friuli is in the north-east and close to what are now the borders of Austria and Slovenia, the Venetian leitmotiv in everything from architecture to cuisine is fused with other, non-Italian, influences.’
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About the Trollope Prize.
1. ‘At Ladywell Cemetery’ and ‘Rossiya’: new poems by Carol Rumens
2. Alan Wall reviews the autobiography of painter R.B. Kitaj
3. Two new poems by Carola Luther
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4.and more…: Andy Owen asks ‘Why write about war?’ | Data-driven lit-crit from Stanford: Chloë Hawkey on Canon/Archive | Fiction the size of a small deckchair by Nigel Ford: The Attendant | Ian Seed’s new translations of poems from Max Jacob’s ‘The Dice Cup’ | Six pages from ‘Lots of Fun with Finnegans Wake’ by Peter O’Brien | Tronn Overend: An objective theory of Modernist aesthetics | Alan Wall’s own Midrash | A part-time life: James Gallant: ‘The Adjunct’ | John McEwen on the cars, carpets and chemistry of the National Gallery’s John Mills | John Taylor translates new poems from Franca Mancinelli’s Little Book of Passage | A cleansing sort of diatribe by Anthony Howell | The Wild Child by Laura Potts | Peter Riley on Poetry deformed in translation | ‘Fair’: Martin Thom visits an arms bazaar | A charming sense of the new by Christopher Landrum | Men with women: three very short stories by Michael Buckingham Gray | Artists and their physicians: Van Gogh and Dr Paul Gachet by Anthony Costello and Emma Storr | Keith Hutson: Seven sonnets | Charles Vecht: Santiago Ramón y Cajal’s Dreams of Nerve Cells | Anthony Rudolf on Zbigniew Kotowicz | Simon Perril: The Man Who Turned to Paper—and three more new poems | Christopher Landrum, caught ‘between history and myth in Austin, Texas’ | 2017 Trollope Prize I: Joel Simundich: Trollope’s ‘Feeling for the world’ in Fixed Period | 2017 Trollope Prize II: Katharine Scott on ‘Resisting Temptation’ in Trollope’s Small House | The Making of Mugabe by Lance Guma | Peter Riley reviews The Poetry of Autumn | …and reflects on the Transylvanian melancholy of zorile | Sonnets for all, gathered by Anthony Howell | Roger Fry and the formalist project by Marnin Young | Post-impressionists by Walter Sickert | Post-Impressionism by Roger Fry | On ‘The Manager’, A critical dossier edited by Paul Scott Derrick devoted to Richard Berengarten’s long poem | David Eisenberg tracks ‘The Utopian Animal’ ||| For much more, please consult our partial archive.
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Books received: Updated list.
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Readings in The Room: Saturday 5 May at 7.30 pm at The Room, 33 Holcombe Road, Tottenham Hale, London N17 9AS – £5 entry plus donation for refreshments. John Welch, Jane Solomon, David Cooke. All enquiries: 0208 801 8577Poetry London: Current listings here.
Shearsman readings: 7:30pm at Swedenborg Hall, 20/21 Bloomsbury Way, London WC1. Further details here.
New York: Time Out’s New York listings here.
2011: Golden-beak in eight parts. By George Basset (H. R. Haxton).
2012: The Invention of the Modern World in 18 parts. By Alan Macfarlane.
2013: Helen in three long parts. By Oswald Valentine Sickert.
2016: The Survival Manual by Alan Macfarlane. In eight parts.
2018: After the Snowbird, Comes the Whale, by Tom Lowenstein. Now running.
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By Roger Berkowitz, Juliet du Boulay, Denis Boyles, Stan Carey, H.R. Haxton, Allen M. Hornblum, Alan Macfarlane, Anthony O’Hear, Andrew Sinclair, Harry Stein, Eugène-Melchior de Vogüé, and many others. Free access.
· James Thomson [B.V.]
Occ. Notes…
A dilemma for educators:
Philosophy and the public impact.
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Michelene Wandor on Derek Walcott and the T.S. Eliot Prize.
.Nick Lowe: the true-blue Basher shows up for a friend.
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