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Author Archives: Niall McDevitt
Postcards From Malthusia DAY NINETY-SEVEN – Niall McDevitt
via Postcards From Malthusia DAY NINETY-SEVEN – Niall McDevitt
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TO THE LORD CHANCELLOR (with chicken)
They were resolved they would try the experiment presently. They alighted out of the coach and went into a poor woman’s house at the bottom of Highgate hill, and bought a fowl, and made the woman extenterate it. 1 the snow’s … Continue reading
STICKER WARNING
In poetopography, one is always looking for signs, ciphers, codes, clues as to the interface between poetry and topography. Placenames, roadsigns, even the names on the sides of passing commercial vans take on an unnatural significance. Recently I saw a … Continue reading
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‘EXPULSIONS’
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
‘A Season in Hell’ – Shakespeare
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
BLACKWELL’S POETRY NO 1
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
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
A ‘HYMN’ TO MARLOWE
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
