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Category Archives: Topography
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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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
THE ASHES OF GRAMSCI
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 SQUARE MILE SHAKESPEARE
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
THE LIFELONG DEATH OF TS ELIOT
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
TYBURN (a neck verse)
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
THOMAS DE QUINCEY AND ANN OF OXFORD STREET
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
POETRY LIBRARY SPECIAL EDITION 3/2/2016
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
TWO TOPOGRAPHERS
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