This is not the answer. What you want goes stretching back and back, remains to challenge all that silences beyond indifference, conquering neglect – the proofs of quest, the foolproof signs of struggle pitched against...
It is no surprise that so many of the poems in this anthology, put together by John Rety from the first two years of poems in the weekly Well Versed column of the Morning Star,...
The Shaping Spirit: Beethoven’s Last Quartets Christopher Hampton describes how Beethoven’s last quartet ‘provides a kind of summing-up of his quest for the essences of artistic form’. Music has its fundamental place among the great...
The Shaping Spirit: Beethoven’s Last Quartets Christopher Hampton describes how Beethoven’s last quartet ‘provides a kind of summing-up of his quest for the essences of artistic form’. Music has its fundamental place among the great...
It's a difficult question, this: whether they are in fact there where they are said to be. As far as I can see the fishmonger's far too busy to make any comment. Those who've seen...
It’s down to us,’ you declare in the editorial and your article in Sofia 81; and there are many images from Christian iconography – from the great painting schools and painters of Europe, which have...
Many palpably do not ‘share the same loaf’ Question and Answer So what kind of voice do we have to have to get the message through? Just turn your back, just turn your back. No,...
Anne Beresford’s Collected Poems, covering 40 years of continuous activity and containing in its 350 pages the 351 poems she has chosen from her 13 published volumes, is an achievement that deserves the highest praise....
If the title of Arnold Rattenbury’s seventh collection of poems initially strikes an odd jarring note, it does turn out to have some sort of teasing relevance to the spirit of the book. It refers...
There are conditions that determine what this I can say or do. Poetry, it’s true, begins from the self. but can’t assume that what it speaks for comes from nothing else. Beyond it lie the...
