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Mar 18, 2025
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On improvisation and the poetic occasion
Featuring Souleymane Diamanka, Daniel Heinsius and our old friend Adrian Schoell
Jan 15
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In the translator's workshop: a poem from the "Subhāsitaratnakosha"
A brief extra piece to start this week: this is a copy of an essay commissioned last year for the ‘in the translator’s workshop’ feature in Marginalia…
Jan 12
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Ezra Pound and Homer's Latin
Nov 13, 2025
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What is a poetry magazine for?
Aug 4, 2025
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Hardy to Hughes: English poetry 1900-1970 without T. S. Eliot (or any women)
Mar 5, 2025
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What is a poetry magazine for?
Apr 25, 2024
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Harvesting in time of war
Oct 30, 2025
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Love is a deeper season: e. e. cummings and Horace the fascist
Nov 27, 2025
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The freckled flower upon the flinty base: whither the narrative poem?
We spent the week after Christmas in north-east Suffolk, where my mother lives.
Jan 8
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A Christmas poem, no. 3
Today’s Christmas poem is ‘A Christmas Carol’ by G.
Jan 2
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Did Ben Jonson invent Father Christmas?
Christmas his Masque
Dec 29, 2025
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A Christmas poem, no. 2
Today’s Christmas poem is by R.
Dec 27, 2025
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A Christmas poem, no. 1
Over the Christmas break, I’m sending out several brief messages with Christmas poems I particularly like, starting today with a poem I’ve been saving…
Dec 23, 2025
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How to write a Christmas poem in early modern England
Tracking trends in poetry
Dec 18, 2025
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The running of the deer: celebrating Christmas in 1644
Salvation is not Pageantry
Dec 11, 2025
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