Author Archives: Niall McDevitt

About Niall McDevitt

Niall McDevitt > poet > author of b/w (Waterloo Press, 2010) and Porterloo (International Times, 2012) > urban explorer > radical pedestrian who leads Shakespeare/Blake/Rimbaud /Yeats walks, among others.

Ragged Lion Journal // Number One

Posted on April 22, 2020

Ragged Lion Journal // Number One is a new literary journal edited and printed by the indefatigable e.a.d. sellors. One must resist the assumption that it’s already a collector’s item to be filed away on a shelf of literary valuables. … Continue reading →

Posted in Magazines, Uncategorized | Tagged Alexandra Unger, Audrey Szasz, D.R. Wagner, Derek Adams, e.a.d. sellors, Gerard Malanga, Henri Michaux, Jeremy Reed, Jerome Rothenberg, Kim Tong, Louise Landes Levi, niall mcdevitt, Pierre Guyotat, Ragged Lion Journal, Stephen Barner, Steve Finbow, Yannis Lividas | Leave a comment

‘EXPULSIONS’

Posted on March 4, 2020

In a history poem I wrote for Flat Time House’s exhibition THE BARD, I used the loaded word ‘expulsions’. The subject of the poem is the psychopathic Plantagenet king Edward I, notorious for conquering Wales and hammering Scotland. No friend … Continue reading →

Posted in Medieval, Uncategorized | Tagged Braveheart, Edict of Expulsion 1290, Edward O, OldJewry, Statute of the jewry 1275, The Braveheart bad guy | Leave a comment

‘A Season in Hell’ – Shakespeare

Posted on February 25, 2020

I noticed a little gem when re-reading Richard III. Richard’s hapless brother George, Duke of Clarence, is recounting his nightmare in the tower in a speech from Act 1 Sc 4. It is a mesmeric description of a classical hell: … Continue reading →

Posted in Rimbaud, Uncategorized | Tagged A Season in Hell, A season in hell in Shakespeare, Duke of Clarence 'a season in hell'., French translations of Richard III, Rimbaud, Title of A Season in Hell | 2 Comments

BLACKWELL’S POETRY NO 1

Posted on February 10, 2020

I’m honoured to be featured in Blackwell’s Poetry No 1 alongside poets whose work I much admire and under such a distinguished imprint. Editor A.R. Thompson elucidates: “Last year, I was very lucky to have been asked by Blackwell’s to … Continue reading →

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A History Sonnet by William Shakespeare

Posted on February 5, 2020

Re-reading Henry V I found myself enjoying the form of the final chorus in Act V. Whereas the previous choruses at the beginning of each act are written in blank verse, the final chorus is an epilogue in rhyme and … Continue reading →

Posted in Christopher Marlowe, Elizabethan, Shakespeare, Uncategorized | Tagged A Historical Sonnet by William Shakespeare., Epilogie to Henry V | Leave a comment

A ‘HYMN’ TO MARLOWE

Posted on February 3, 2020

After writing a sequence of fourteen prose poems about Christopher Marlowe called ESPIALS, and a masque THE BODY OF THE QUEEN, I thought that that would be the subject exhausted. But a final musical coda came through. I regard … Continue reading →

Posted in Christopher Marlowe, Shakespeare Authorship So-called Debate, Uncategorized | Tagged A 'Hymn to Marlowe', Ghost of Marlowe, Julie Goldsmith, Marlowe, The London Magazine | Leave a comment

THE BARD

Posted on January 27, 2020

Opens this Wednesday 6–8.30pm THE BARD WILLIAM BLAKE AT FLAT TIME HOUSE Opening Wedesday 29 January 6–8.30pm with a reading from William Blake’s Jersualem by poet Chris McCabe Exhibition continues 30 January–8 March Open Thursday–Sunday 12–6pm With contributions … Continue reading →

Posted in Blake, Modernism, Poetry Readings, Topography, Uncategorized | Tagged Blake in Peckham, Blake's illustrations for The Bard and Thomas Gray, Flat Time House, John Latham, The Bard, Thomas Gray | Leave a comment

The Fourfold Battersea Power Station

Posted on December 16, 2019

1 Sometimes I find myself in disagreement with Kathleen Raine, but hey! it’s okay for Blakeans to disagree. It’s not like when Marxists disagree. This time I suspect I won’t be the only one who disagrees with the great lady … Continue reading →

Posted in Blake, Modernism, Topography, Uncategorized | Tagged Battersea Power Station, Giles Gilbert Scott, Golgonooza, Kathleen Raine, Los, William Blake | Leave a comment

A Thank You Letter to My Fellow Blake Walkers

Posted on December 9, 2019

Dear Blake walkers Thank you very much from New River Press and I for joining us on the unprecedented adventure of five different poetopographical William Blake walks on consecutive Sundays in London. It felt a bit like this: All fell … Continue reading →

Posted in Blake, Topography, Tyburn, Uncategorized | Tagged New River Press, niall mcdevitt, The Ancient Albion Tavern, The Gate of Los, Tyburn, William Blake Walks in London, Wyldes Cottage | Leave a comment

AUTHORS’ CLUB HALLOWEEN GATHERING

Posted on October 28, 2019

Join us at the National Liberal Club for a literary celebration of the spookiest season. Real-life chills, a modern magus and ghost stories to freeze the blood. Paul Burston relates the personal horror story that inspired his new crime novel, … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Author's Club, Halloween Evening, National Liberal Club, niall mcdevitt, Paul Burston, Phil Baker, Suzi Feay, Syd Moore | 1 Comment