Category Archives: Topography

THE BARD

Posted on January 27, 2020 by Niall McDevitt

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 →

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The Fourfold Battersea Power Station

Posted on December 16, 2019 by Niall McDevitt

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 by Niall McDevitt

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 →

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THE ASHES OF GRAMSCI

Posted on April 5, 2019 by Niall McDevitt

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 →

Posted in Modernism, Topography, Uncategorized | Tagged Pasolini, Protestant Cemetery in Rome, Shelley's tomb, Testaccio, The Ashes of Gramsci | Leave a comment

THE SQUARE MILE SHAKESPEARE

Posted on April 17, 2018 by Niall McDevitt

Poet-psychogeographer Niall McDevitt commemorates the month of Shakespeare’s birth and death with his much imitated but never equalled walk THE SQUARE MILE SHAKESPEARE. McDevitt proves that you don’t have to go to Stratford-on-Avon, or Bankside, to explore the buskined … Continue reading →

Posted in Elizabethan, Shakespeare Authorship So-called Debate, Topography, Uncategorized | Tagged Baynard Castle, Blackfriars Gatehouse, Blackfriars playhouse, niall mcdevitt, Richard Quiney letter, Shakespeare coat of arms, Shakespeare inn the Square Mile | Leave a comment

THE LIFELONG DEATH OF TS ELIOT

Posted on January 5, 2018 by Niall McDevitt

The Lifelong Death of TS Eliot is a new walk by Niall McDevitt exploring the Kensington habitat of the American who was surprisingly voted ‘the nation’s favourite poet’ in a 2009 poll. http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2009/10_october/08/poetry.shtml Though Eliot is associated with Bloomsbury and with … Continue reading →

Posted in Modernism, Topography, TS Eliot, Uncategorized | Tagged Four Quartets, Interlude in London, Kensington Quartets, niall mcdevitt, TS Eliot, TS Eliot 'the nation's favourite poet', TS Eliot as Anglo-Catholic, TS Eliot as church warden, TS Eliot walk in London | Leave a comment

TYBURN (a neck verse)

Posted on January 3, 2018 by Niall McDevitt

after Peter Linebaugh cranes over tyburn (‘marble arch place’) paddy-necks, bull-necks, they came to hang, they came to hang at the tyburn crossroads, twenty-four necks a time on the crossbeams, yahoo-necks, prole-necks, they who lived amid dung and refuse, … Continue reading →

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THOMAS DE QUINCEY AND ANN OF OXFORD STREET

Posted on January 12, 2017 by Niall McDevitt

Two of Soho’s most legendary characters have been spotted again in the vicinity. Romantic writer Thomas De Quincey and his tragic consort – a sex-worker known to posterity as ‘Ann of Oxford Street’ – are on display in a … Continue reading →

Posted in Topography, Uncategorized | Tagged Ann of Oxford Street, Confessions of an English Opium Eater, Drug literature, Frances Wilson, Julie Goldsmith, Oxford Street, Soho Faery, Soho legends, The Society Club, Thomas De Quincey | Leave a comment

POETRY LIBRARY SPECIAL EDITION 3/2/2016

Posted on February 11, 2016 by Niall McDevitt

A David Gascoyne Celebration was one night in a series run by the Poetry Library called Special Edition. As I was organising this one – with help from Library staff Pascal O’Loughlin and Jessica Atkinson – it definitely began to … Continue reading →

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TWO TOPOGRAPHERS

Posted on February 4, 2016 by Niall McDevitt

Poetopographer Niall McDevitt introducing deep topographer Nick Papadimitriou at A DAVID GASCOYNE CELEBRATION in the Saison Poetry Library. Here is a review of Nick’s book Scarp by a third man: http://www.mythogeography.com/scarp.html Photos: Julie Goldsmith

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