Tag Archives: poets
Ted Hughes: an unusual approach by Bill Drummond.
“Nostalgia” (aka “The Iron Music”) by Ford Madox Ford, read by Michael Blackburn
Ford Madox Ford, 1873 – 1939.
Best known as the author of such novels as The Good Soldier and No More Parades, Ford was also an accomplished modernist poet. He enlisted with the Welch Regiment in 1915 at the age of 41, served at the front and was wounded. “Nostalgia” (with the alternative title, “The Iron Music”) is one of a number of poems that take their rise from his experiences of the Great War.
Image of Ford c/o The Ford Madox Ford Society (http://www.fordmadoxfordsociety.org).
The text is taken from Ford Madox Ford: Selected Poems, edited with an introduction by Max Saunders, published by Carcanet Press, 2003.
My interview with the Royal Literary Fund.
‘After a while most of us find we’re doing the same stuff; I tried new things.’
Listen to my interview with poet Geoff Hattersley for the Royal Literary Fund, in which I talk about my life as a poet, publisher and editor.
Poetry Events at Lincoln, Oct – Dec 2017
And a regular poetry reading group:
Listen to the poets – for my MA Creative Writing students
Following our discussion of Robert Creeley’s poem, “I Know a Man”, you may be interested in listening to the poet reading the poem at different times in his life. These recordings can be found at PennSound, which is a living archive of modern and contemporary poets: http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/authors.php
You can also listen to William Carlos Williams reading “The Red Wheelbarrow” on the same site.
Podcast on Tennyson’s “Ulysses”. ENL1012M
Listen to this short podcast on Tennyson’s poem, “Ulysses”.
A 3-minute lecture: Dowson’s “Cynara” poem.
Reading my poetry at Revival Cafe on National Poetry Day.
On National Poetry Day, Thursday 3 October, I’ll be giving a reading with Paul Sutherland and David Cooke at the Revival Cafe on Sincil Street, Lincoln, at 7.00.
Free entry. All welcome.
