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.
https://genius.com/Gang-of-four-ether-lyrics * As an Irish, mostly political poet, I’d like to pay homage to an English work of art that has had a powerful influence on my own artistic and political sensibility. * It is the opening track of an … Continue reading →
Since words nor threates nor any other thinge canne make you to avoyd this certaine ill Weele cutte your throtes, in your temples praying Not paris massacre so much blood did spill.. Fly, Flye, & never returne. per. Tamberlaine … Continue reading →
‘Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight And burned is Apollo’s laurel bough’ – Dr Faustus The death of Christopher Marlowe is one of the most fascinating if disturbing stories in the history of English literature, … Continue reading →
Posted in Elizabethan, Marlowe, Shakespeare Authorship So-called Debate, Uncategorized
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Tagged Christopher Marlowe, Deptford, Deptford Strand, Frizer, Poley, Privy Council, Skeres, St Nicholas Church
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Harry Fainlight was an unclassifiable poet who came to prominence in the Anglo-American counterculture of the 1960s but later became a casualty of the reactionary British culture of the 1970s. That he was a lyric poet with an original … Continue reading →
Posted in Poetry Readings, Uncategorized
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Tagged Dave Tomlin, Harry Fainlight, Horse Hospital, Jeremy Reed, niall mcdevitt, Patricia Scanlan, Phil Baker, Poete Maudit, Rob Dickins, Su Rose
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Let us suppose – as Geoffrey Marsh does in his TLS article of April 19 – that Shakespeare moved into the parish of St Helen’s Bishopsgate before 1594; and that he was staying in property owned by the Leathersellers Hall. It … Continue reading →
The Ashes of Gramsci is a poem – and early book – by Pier Paolo Pasolini. The book was published in 1957 when the poet was 35. The poem was written in 1954 and caused a furore in Italian literary … Continue reading →
The wonderful Taqasim Oud Club have invited me to be guest poet at their final event in 2018. I shall perform two 15 minute sets with musical interludes and accompaniment at the Poetry Cafe on Monday November 19. Poems shall … Continue reading →
