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Tonguefire: Open Plan

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A young(ish) Scottish poet squeaks. Monday, July 27, 2009. I'll be interviewing another Shearsman poet, Claire Crowther. Here on Friday 31 July. The following poem comes from her marvellous new collection The Clockwork Gift. They took the walls away without warning. The roof floated, a miraculous over. We were caught out. We cooled quickly. A sty? My hands made paws? My lover stamped in the open. Who took the decision? About iconoclasm. We’d had a tradition. Of opening the inside but obscuring doors.

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Carrie Etter: The Ted Hughes Award Citation for Imagined Sons

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Poet, teacher and critic. Friday, 8 May 2015. The Ted Hughes Award Citation for Imagined Sons. The poems in Carrie Etter’s poignant collection, Imagined Sons. Coalesce around a haunting:. Though the poems are spoken by the birth-mother, it is the son who takes centre stage, his absence experienced as a real and pervasive presence throughout. The sequence is a montage of fictional fragments, each fragment representing one of an infinite number of possible versions of the mother/son relationship. Katy Evan...

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Carrie Etter: January 2015

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Poet, teacher and critic. Tuesday, 20 January 2015. Meeting Dave Etter, August 2014. Sorry for the radio silence- did anyone notice? Since the start of the new year I've been drowning in marking. There used to be an event called Wordfair at the wonderful little Franklin Park (the scene of a poem from Imagined Sons,. Over the decades, when I meet another poet for the first time and say my name, I've heard Dave Etter's name brought up again and again: "Do you know him? Are you related to him? Divining for ...

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Carrie Etter: Peter Riley's Due North (Shearsman, 2015), third and final selection

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Poet, teacher and critic. Monday, 27 April 2015. Peter Riley's Due North (Shearsman, 2015), third and final selection. My thanks go to Tony Frazer, editor at Shearsman Books, and Peter Riley, for allowing me to post so many quotations. Here's a final round of favourite passages from Riley's new collection:. They asked us what songs we'd brought with us. We'll evict ourselves when we need to. From "VII. Lateral Spread and Forward March. Erwartung. Préludes.". Apocalypse too is lullaby. How am I to resolve...

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Carrie Etter: Kim Moore's The Art of Falling (Seren, 2015)

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Poet, teacher and critic. Monday, 11 May 2015. Kim Moore's The Art of Falling (Seren, 2015). And the soul, if she is to know herself. Must look into the soul and find. What kind of beast is hiding. The opening stanza of "And the Soul". I come from people who swear without realising they're swearing. The opening line of "My People". And the lawn sits. In its shadows and dark and its falsehoods. And the ending begins with its terrible face,. Its strange way of being, its short way of living. I knew it then.

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Carrie Etter: The Bodmin Moor Poetry Festival, 29-31 May

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Poet, teacher and critic. Friday, 17 April 2015. The Bodmin Moor Poetry Festival, 29-31 May. Bodmin Moor Poetry Festival. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Imagined Sons (Seren, 2014). Divining for Starters (Shearsman, February 2011). Infinite Difference (anthology, Shearsman, March 2010). The Tethers (Seren, June 2009). Bath, United Kingdom. View my complete profile. Peter Rileys Due North (Shearsman, 2015), third a. Peter Sirr, The Rooms (Gallery, 2014). Judging the Forward Prizes, Reading Differently.

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Carrie Etter: Nicholas Laughlin's The Strange Years of My Life (Peepal Tree Press, 2015)

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Poet, teacher and critic. Wednesday, 22 April 2015. Nicholas Laughlin's The Strange Years of My Life (Peepal Tree Press, 2015). Poem and then some passages I enjoyed from this first book:. Plant these seeds so you can tend a forest. So you can long for a stranger to feed the wild birds. What starts in the tepidarium. Will end in my memoirs. The opening lines of "Sub Rosa". My traitors were my lovers. I was the Aztec kid. I was the night captain on the S.S. Escape,. Here today, French tomorrow. You can le...

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Carrie Etter: April 2015

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Poet, teacher and critic. Monday, 27 April 2015. Peter Riley's Due North (Shearsman, 2015), third and final selection. My thanks go to Tony Frazer, editor at Shearsman Books, and Peter Riley, for allowing me to post so many quotations. Here's a final round of favourite passages from Riley's new collection:. They asked us what songs we'd brought with us. We'll evict ourselves when we need to. From "VII. Lateral Spread and Forward March. Erwartung. Préludes.". Apocalypse too is lullaby. How am I to resolve...

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Carrie Etter: Peter Sirr, The Rooms (Gallery, 2014)

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Poet, teacher and critic. Friday, 24 April 2015. Peter Sirr, The Rooms (Gallery, 2014). I want to lie in the atrium. Of the museum of the fingertip. And touch, touch, touch. Last lines of "The Mapmaker's Song". In the undaunted light. Opening lines of "Robert Graves House, Deià". But the sun is somehow still on the table, the book. Turned over, the oil softening the bread. But here it is again. The room comes on. Like another life, the alien. Objects glitter, the fields outside. Giantly from the walls.

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Carrie Etter: Judging the Forward Prizes, Reading Differently

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Poet, teacher and critic. Saturday, 18 April 2015. Judging the Forward Prizes, Reading Differently. As a university lecturer and further education tutor for the last twenty years, with a focus on teaching creative writing, I have developed my ability to read appreciatively. I've come to start my workshops with "What do we like? Because I want to use that immediate, almost unthought initial response as a starting point. Labels: Forward Arts Foundation. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Modern Poetry, Pe...