March 19, 2005
Text Day!
Today the Text Festival opens. The staff have done a remarkable thing to get it ready in time - special mention must be given to Laura Minta. The run up to opening has been characterised for me by end-to-end press and media work - Amusingly the Guardian story today simplifies the complex issues of text to poetry by personifying it into an argument between me and Andrew Motion (someone who I have never met and I expect has never heard of me), and an unfortunate seeming direct attack on Simon Armitage and Carol Ann Duffy. Anyway, BBC Radio 4 have done a great piece on Friday's Front Row arts programme. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts/frontrow/index.shtml
Immanence and the Library of Babel
I have not read Jorge Luis Borges’ short story “The Library of Babel”. I am a very slow reader. I only read with a purpose. It is sufficient...
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This would have been the 15th birthday of Barney , the famous Poetry Dog - he missed it by one month. We have been touched by the outpourin... -
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Dortmund . 15 nations represented at the Shortcut Europe convention on Culture and Social Inclusion. I must admit that I was a little uncert...