WE HAVE ADDED A second table of major paradigms to Prof. Alan Macfarlane’s remarkable (and remarkably popular) ‘fragment’: Concepts of time and the world we live in. The addition brings the paradigms of theoretical structures in the social sciences up to the present.
More Chronicle & Notices.
Mariangela
Ian Seed
Three texts
Rupert M Loydell
Vessel
Melita Schaum
Some Guts
Simon Collings (with collages by John Goodby)
Three Short Fictions
Meg Pokrass
The Campus Novel
Peter Robinson
Charlie Boy and Captain Fitz: A One-Act Play
Alan Wall
Snapshot, Sachsenhausen and three more poems
Peter Blair
Seven short poems
Lucian Staiano-Daniels
Four prose poems
Olivia Tuck
The Back of Beyond and two more prose poems
Tony Kitt
Two poems
Moriana Delgado
from Reverse | Inverse
Lucy Hamilton
Six haibun
Sheila E. Murphy
Kingfishers and cobblestones and five more new poems
Kitty Hawkins
Zion Offramp 76–78
Mark Scroggins
Come dancing with me and two more new poems
Marc Vincenz
Please swipe right
Chloe Phillips
‘Three Postcards’ and a prose poem
Linda Black
Still life
Melita Schaum
In memory of
John Taylor with drawings by Sam Forder
Immortal wreckage
Will Stone
New in Translation
Snowdrifts
Marina Tsvetaeva, trans. by Belinda Cooke
Poems from Prière (1924)
Pierre Jean Jouve, trans. by Will Stone
Six prose poems
Pietro di Marchi, trans. by Peter Robinson
The goddess of emptiness.
Jean Frémon, trans. by John Taylor
A new Review of John Matthias’s Some Words on Those Wars by Garin Cycholl.
Anthony Howell’s review, A Clutch of Ingenious Authors: Michelene Wandor Four Times EightyOne: Bespoke Stories | Annabel Dover Florilegia | Sharon Kivland Abécédaire
Essays by Alan Wall
· ‘King of Infinite Space’: The Virtue of Uncertainty
· AI: Signs of the Times
· The Lad from Stratford
· Stanley Kubrick: Sex in the Cinema
Will Stone’s Missing in Mechelen and At Risk of Interment
G. Kim Blank’s Civilizing, Selling, and T. S. Eliot Curled Up behind the Encyclopædia Britannica
Tronn Overend’s Samuel Alexander on Beauty
AND Conor Robin Madigan’s Master Singer, Simon Collings’s Robert Desnos, Screenwriter, and Igor Webb’s Never Again
Simon Collings, Carrying the past: The Afterlight by Charlie Shackleton.
New Fortnightly Serials
from The Runiad
Anthony Howell
from White Ivory
Alan Wall
and much more below this column.
Audio archive: Two poems, with an audio track, from Heart Monologues by Jasmina Bolfek-Radovani | Daragh Breen’s Aural Triptych | Hayden Carruth reads Contra Mortem and Journey to a Known Place | Anthony Howell reads three new poems | James Laughlin reads Easter in Pittsburgh and five more | Peter Robinson reads Manifestos for a lost cause, Dreamt Affections, Blind Summits and Oblique Lights
Previous Serials
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.
LONDON
Readings in The Room: 33 Holcombe Road, Tottenham Hale, London N17 9AS – £5 entry plus donation for refreshments. All enquiries: 0208 801 8577
Poetry London: Current listings here.
Shearsman readings: 7:30pm at Swedenborg Hall, 20/21 Bloomsbury Way, London WC1. Further details here.
NEW YORK
10 reliable poetry venues in NYC.
· The funeral of Isaac Albéniz
· Coleridge, poetry and the ‘rage for disorder’
· Otto Rank
· Patrons and toadying · Rejection before slips
· Cut with a dull blade
· Into the woods, everybody.
· Thought Leaders and Ted Talks
· How Mary Oliver ‘found love in a breathing machine.’
AND read here:
· James Thomson [B.V.]
A dilemma for educators:
Philosophy and the public impact.
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Michelene Wandor on Derek Walcott and the T.S. Eliot Prize.
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Nick Lowe: the true-blue Basher shows up for a friend.
More daily in
Anthony Howell: The new libertine in exile.
Kate Hoyland: Inventing Asia, with Joseph Conrad and a Bible for tourists.
Who is Bruce Springsteen? by Peter Knobler.
Martin Sorrell on John Ashbery’s illumination of Arthur Rimbaud.
The beauty of Quantitative Easing.
