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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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