Best American Poetry Blog

May 9, 2013

This week (Monday to Friday), I'm a guest blogger over at the Best American Poetry website. I feel a little guilty, as I'm neglecting my own site, but I'm hoping to continue here from next week. In the meantime you can catch me over there, here:

My Best American Poetry blogs

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June 30, 2022

Unextraordinary Light (for Euclid)

June 30, 2022

October 14, 2017

Dark River (London Film Festival 2017)

October 14, 2017

I chose Clio Barnard's new film because I loved The Arbor (2010), her innovative documentary about Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar. I'm not crazy about British social-realist cinema but The Arbor was imaginative and formally inventive. I have also heard great things about The Selfish Giant (which I'm yet to see).

October 14, 2017

October 12, 2017

The Party (London Film Festival 2017)

October 12, 2017

I was once taken suddenly ill at a friend's house and, while visiting the bathroom to 'pray' in time-honoured fashion, I hallucinated Bruno Ganz standing behind me, in his calming Wings of Desire garb, making sure I was okay. It was lovely to see him, in the flesh, on stage at the premiere of The Party (UK, 2017).

October 12, 2017

October 11, 2017

The Dead Nation (London Film Festival 2017)

October 11, 2017

October 10, 2017

Ana, Mon Amour (London Film Festival 2017)

October 10, 2017

If you fall in love with someone when they’re ill, you may fall out of love with them when they get better.

October 10, 2017

October 7, 2017

London Film Festival 2017

October 7, 2017

I'm hoping that my mini-London Film Festival will distract me for a week from the clusterfucked basket case that is the UK right now. #somechance

October 7, 2017

April 20, 2017

A poem for Enceladus

April 20, 2017

With the exciting news about the possibility of microbial life on Saturn's moon Enceladus peeping through the curtain of wall-to-wall gloom, I thought it time to post a gloomy poem of mine from the great science-fiction poetry anthology Where Rockets Burn Through (Penned in the Margins).

April 20, 2017

November 1, 2016

London Film Festival 2016: PHANTASM REMASTERED

November 1, 2016

There's a Kafka short story called 'Blumfeld, an Elderly Batchelor' in which the protagonist is inexplicably followed around by a couple of floating balls:

November 1, 2016

October 25, 2016

London Film Festival 2016: DEAREST SISTER

October 25, 2016

A friend once told me that Laos is the most bombed country on Earth. For a country one doesn't hear that much about in the UK, that fact astonished me.

October 25, 2016

October 17, 2016

London Film Festival 2016: ZOOLOGY

October 17, 2016

The tagline for this Russian-set film is 'It's never too late to grow a tail'. I think 'The tale of tails' would also work (and tip the hat to a great Russian film, The Tale of Tales), as would this homage to Sam Cooke: 'Don't know much about zoology' (well if Theresa May can quote him, hollowly, why can't I?)

October 17, 2016