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Author Archives: Niall McDevitt
The Fourfold Battersea Power Station
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
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Tagged Battersea Power Station, Giles Gilbert Scott, Golgonooza, Kathleen Raine, Los, William Blake
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A Thank You Letter to My Fellow Blake Walkers
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
AUTHORS’ CLUB HALLOWEEN GATHERING
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
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Tagged Author's Club, Halloween Evening, National Liberal Club, niall mcdevitt, Paul Burston, Phil Baker, Suzi Feay, Syd Moore
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LATITUDE: 51.5228 / 51°31’21″N LONGITUDE: -0.1244 / 0°7’27″W
LATITUDE: 51.5228 / 51°31’21″N LONGITUDE: -0.1244 / 0°7’27″W A POETRY BENEFIT FOR THE HORSE HOSPITAL with JEREMY REED DAMIAN LE BAS AUDREY SZASZ PAUL DE MUTH MICHAEL WYNDHAM special guest LILIANE LIJN also featuring FREE POETRY SERIES by RAGGED LION … Continue reading
A MONTH OF BLAKE WALKS
And sixty-four thousand Genii, guard the Eastern Gate: And sixty-four thousand Gnomes, guard the Northern Gate And sixty-four thousand Nymphs, guard the Western Gate: And sixty-four thousand Fairies, guard the Southern Gate: – from Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant … Continue reading
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ETHER / Gang of Four
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
THE DEATH WARRANT OF KYD AND MARLOWE
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
MARLOWE’S HEART OF DARKNESS
‘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
HARRY FAINLIGHT: Poète Maudit
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
SHAKESPEARE’S NEIGHBOUR FROM HELL
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
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