Tag Archives: niall mcdevitt

Ragged Lion Journal // Number One

Posted on April 22, 2020 by Niall McDevitt

Ragged Lion Journal // Number One is a new literary journal edited and printed by the indefatigable e.a.d. sellors. One must resist the assumption that it’s already a collector’s item to be filed away on a shelf of literary valuables. … Continue reading →

Posted in Magazines, Uncategorized | Tagged Alexandra Unger, Audrey Szasz, D.R. Wagner, Derek Adams, e.a.d. sellors, Gerard Malanga, Henri Michaux, Jeremy Reed, Jerome Rothenberg, Kim Tong, Louise Landes Levi, niall mcdevitt, Pierre Guyotat, Ragged Lion Journal, Stephen Barner, Steve Finbow, Yannis Lividas | 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 →

Posted in Blake, Topography, Tyburn, Uncategorized | Tagged New River Press, niall mcdevitt, The Ancient Albion Tavern, The Gate of Los, Tyburn, William Blake Walks in London, Wyldes Cottage | Leave a comment

AUTHORS’ CLUB HALLOWEEN GATHERING

Posted on October 28, 2019 by Niall McDevitt

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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Author's Club, Halloween Evening, National Liberal Club, niall mcdevitt, Paul Burston, Phil Baker, Suzi Feay, Syd Moore | 1 Comment

HARRY FAINLIGHT: Poète Maudit

Posted on May 22, 2019 by Niall McDevitt

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 | Tagged Dave Tomlin, Harry Fainlight, Horse Hospital, Jeremy Reed, niall mcdevitt, Patricia Scanlan, Phil Baker, Poete Maudit, Rob Dickins, Su Rose | Leave a comment

WEST LONDON POETRY – WED 24 OCT – IRISH CULTURAL CENTRE

Posted on September 4, 2018 by Niall McDevitt

TREVOR JOYCE, FERGAL GAYNOR and NIALL McDEVITT Trevor Joyce is one of Ireland’s most innovative and respected poets. He co-founded New Writers’ Press (NWP) in Dublin in 1967, publishing Michael Hartnett among others, and was a founding editor of NWP’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Irish Cultural Centre, Poetry Readings, Poets of Hammersmith, Uncategorized, West London Poetry | Tagged Fergal Gaynor, Irish Cultural Centre, niall mcdevitt, Trevor Joyce, West London Poetry | 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

POETS OF THE EMBANKMENT

Posted on February 27, 2018 by Niall McDevitt

Poet-psychogeographer Niall McDevitt takes a walk of discovery along the Thames Embankment tracing the 700-year history of poets and poetry in the area. Elizabethans, Romantics, Decadents and Beats feature prominently, including the ‘disappeared’ street where Ben Jonson grew up with his … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 700 hundred years of poetry, Ben Jonson's London, Heine in London, Melville in London, niall mcdevitt, Poets of the Embankment, Subterranean Homesick Blues | Leave a comment

GEORGE BARKER, PENTAMETERS THEATRE

Posted on February 20, 2018 by Niall McDevitt

JOIN US IN CELEBRATING THE LIFE AND WORK OF GEORGE BARKER (1913-1991) with JEREMY REED PAUL SAKOILSKY NIALL McDEVITT Music: GODFREY OLD Hostess: LEONIE SCOTT-MATTHEWS MON 26 FEBRUARY, PENTAMETERS THEATRE, 28 HEATH STREET, HAMPSTEAD, LONDON NW3 8pm £5 http://www.pentameters.co.uk/WhatsOn.html

Posted in Poetry Readings, Uncategorized | Tagged George Barker, Godfrey Old, Jeremy Reed, Leonie Scott-Matthews, niall mcdevitt, Paul Sakoilsky, Pentameters Theatre | Leave a comment

THE SHILL

Posted on January 21, 2018 by Niall McDevitt

behind the illustrious man a shadow squats behind the tenured man of academe a shadow shits what a shadow does not clean up how can followers know? how can flatterers see his feet not just of clay but cloven? … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged niall mcdevitt, The Shill | 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