On the 1st June, please join us in launching Sasha Dugdale's new book, The Strongbox, w/@Poetry_East, either online (free) or in person LondonBuddhistCentre (ticketed). Sasha will read from her new collection and be in conversation with Maitreyabandhu. Book here: londonbuddhistcentre.com/whats-on/poetr…

'The Strongbox is like the TARDIS, it is an immensely rich poetic world which, when you enter, you find is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside.'

ChrisE gives a detailed, generous review of Sasha Dugdale's latest Carcanet Press collection: carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexe…

Thread of photos that look like paintings

1. Arnaud Montagard

Soon to be available (May 10th) from Carcanet Press : Sasha Dugdale's astounding new collection The Strongbox. I review it here in the context of her brilliant (and I must say I think under-wowed-about) body of work over the last 20 years. woodbeepoet.com/2024/03/06/egg…

France has over 40,000 castles (and châteaus) - more than any other country.

These are the most breathtaking 🧵

1. Château de Pierrefonds, Oise (14th century)

Where do we stand, dear readers? A 24hr poll on three little, but infinitely big, questions. We're intrigued to know what you think!

1) Do you believe in objective truth - on things being 'true' (and 'false') beyond your own experience?

One of the most beautiful of many sublime similes in the Iliad is the moment at the end of book 8 when the Trojans, awaiting a great victory in battle the following day, light watch-fires all over the plain --

Thanks to Chris Edgoose for this wonderful in-depth review of #OutofSriLanka (co-eds #VidyanRavinthiran , Shash Trevett & SeniSeneviratne) on ChrisE.
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'It’s not difficult to see what might have drawn Sean O’Brien to the Maigret novels.' — Chris Edgoose on 'Impasse: for Jules Maigret' by Sean O’Brien  buff.ly/3EqVSCY #TheFridayPoem ChrisE Hercules Editions

'O’Brien is rightly suspicious of reading poetic qualities into Simenon’s novels themselves, but he has, I think, been inspired by seeing the poetic potential in Maigret’s world.' — Chris Edgoose on 'Impasse: for Jules Maigret' by Sean O’Brien buff.ly/3EqVSCY ChrisE

So incredible to have KimHyesoon 김혜순시인 in the The New Yorker — I won’t get into all the early rejections… But it has been 25 years ago that I returned to Seoul to get hold of her books. Had no idea then whether I was capable of translating her poetry. I still have doubts…

Essential life-saving equipment for Ukraine gofund.me/6722f00e

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''Medlars', whose subject is broadly speaking England – the UK, but really England – is a collection of nonsense poems in the very best sense of the word.' — Chris Edgoose on 'Medlars' by Geraldine Clarkson (Shearsman, 2023) buff.ly/3PbucbL #TheFridayPoem ChrisE

Today is also the anniversary of the killing of Jo Cox.

👀👀a rather breathtaking review of Medlars by the wonderful ChrisE 🙏🙏 -- and there's even a timely mention of Finnegans Wake on #Bloomsday -- thank you so much to The Friday Poem! #Bloomsday 2023

'This is a funny, stubborn, arch, cheerful, cynical, joyful, frustrating, angry, wise collection.' — Chris Edgoose reviews 'Medlars' by Geraldine Clarkson (Shearsman, 2023) buff.ly/3PbucbL #TheFridayPoem ChrisE Celandine Shearsman

thefridaypoem.com/on-haiku/ Great piece on haiku in The Friday Poem from Matthew Paul
“People who insist that haiku must be written in 5–7–5 are Flat-Earthers.” 😆