Michael Blackburn: ‘It’s telling, of course, that neither Colley nor Naughton admit the imperial dimension of the EU itself, a dimension openly acknowledged by the Commission’s oily president, Mr Barroso. That would rather spoil their argument.’
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Gogarty’s goggles: Ian Sansom visits the Dublin Writers Museum | Peter Riley on the ‘youth tactic’ in poetry: British and American anthologies | Three poems by Steve Kronen | Two new poems by Michelene Wandor | A. Jay Adler on art and torture in Zero Dark Thirty | Peter Knobler on Bruce Springsteen. | Anthony O’Hear on modern marriage. | Paul Cohen: A pataphysical education.
THE ROYAL INSTITUTE OF PHILOSOPHY
Jacobson Philosophy Courses for Schools: No cost to qualifying institutions. Workshop: Keble College, Oxford. 7 June 2013. Organisers: Edward Harcourt (Oxford), Tim Chappell (Open University). For details: The Royal Institute of Philosophy.
THE SHEARSMAN READINGS
Swedenborg Hall, Swedenborg House, 20/21 Bloomsbury Way, London. 4 June: Aidan Semmens
launches By the North Sea, his anthology of Suffolk poetry, with readings by Andy Brown, Andrew Brewerton, Charlotte Geater, Rod Pybus and Victor Tapner. For details: Shearsman Books.
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.
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Writers Museum, Dublin: tat and ephemera.
The youth tactic. | Edward Dorn – a two-part review. | What’s happened to ‘working-class’ poetry? | The ‘infinitely expandable’ minimalism of Anthony Barnett. | The prosaic declarations of ‘world poetry’. | Books received: Summer 2012. | Alistair Noon and the English Sonnet. | Peter Hughes and Oystercatcher Press. | Poetry Prize Culture and the Aberdeen Angus. | Denise Riley and the force of bereavement. | Poetry beyond the cults and enclaves.
Four new poems by John Welch. | Peter Hughes: Quite Frankly, a sequence.
Alan Wall: Pattern recognition and the periodic table. | Extremities of perception in an age of lenses. | Demotic ritual. | Science and disenchantment. | The self-subversion of the book. | Newton’s prisms. | The Janus face of Metaphor. | Clues and labyrinths. | Ruin, the collector and sad mortality.
Keith Johnson: Kuramata’s ‘Miss Blanche’ chair. | A silver fruit bowl by Ettore Sottsass. | Pistoletto’s wall lamp. | Franz West’s austere chain lamp | Joseph Kosuth’s dream of Freud’s couch. | Lawrence Weiner’s mythic waste basket. | …and his desk and bench with a message.
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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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Who is Bruce Springsteen?
Peter Knobler: ‘Senator and former presidential candidate John Kerry says, “There’s an authenticity about Bruce that’s just incontrovertible…I think it’s because he’s so true to who he is, and people know it.” But who is he? Is he the egalitarian liberal who sang the radical anti-private-property verse of Woody Guthrie’s “This Land is Your Land” at President Barack Obama’s first inaugural, or is he the guy who allowed his band to be low-balled when offered contracts for a highly anticipated and financially rewarding “reunion tour”?’