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Blogging on poetry, teaching and translation – over 33,000 visitors in 2019 – 'one of the top 10 poetry blogs' (Rogue Strands)

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    • Beneath Tremendous Rain (1990)
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HomeReading Archive: April – June 2016

Reading Archive: April – June 2016

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Top Posts & Pages

  • The Meaning of Robert Frost’s ‘The Figure a Poem Makes’
  • They Will Have Their Rights: Ted Hughes' 'Her Husband'
  • Ted Hughes' 'Swifts'
  • Explaining Water Images in the 'Daodejing'
  • Too Short an Arc: Robert Frost's 'A Soldier'
  • This Must Be All: Robert Frost's 'Two Look at Two'
  • 14 Ways to Write an Ekphrastic Poem
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  • Stand-to-Arms: David Jones' 'In Parenthesis' (1937)
  • Making Sense of Shelley’s ‘The Mask of Anarchy’ #1

Recent Posts

  • Jazz and Upbringing: Marvin Thompson’s ‘Road Trip’ reviewed
  • Friday Poem – ‘After Bonnefoy’ by Martyn Crucefix
  • Winning Translation in the 2020 Schlegel-Tieck Prize
  • Tagay! on Romalyn Ante’s ‘Antiemetic for Homesickness’
  • Gods and Giants: Miriam Nash’s ‘The Nine Mothers of Heimdallr’
  • One being walked – on Ricky Ray’s ‘The Sound of the Earth Singing to Herself’
  • The Outlaw Beyond the Wall: the poetry of Peter Huchel
  • Not Yet Born – Louis MacNeice’s ‘Prayer Before Birth’
  • On the Side of Hope: Heidi Williamson’s ‘Return By Minor Road’
  • Louise Gluck’s Poetry: Whole But Not Final

Archives

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  • January 2015
  • December 2014
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Blogs I Follow

  • Coverstory Books
  • Seren Books Blog
  • roughghosts
  • a dreaming skin
  • Islington Centre for Refugees and Migrants
  • Coming up with the Words
  • anthonyhowelljournal
  • The WordPress.com Blog
  • Arachne Press
  • Poetry Owl
  • The Luxembourg Review
  • The Bell Jar
  • The Lonely Crowd
  • Freefall
  • The Manchester Review
  • vastland
  • The High Window
  • Created to Read
  • Ali Thurm

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Delighted to be included on such a fabulous shortlist @society_of_authors @shearsmanbooks #schlegel-tieckprize #peterhuchel
You like serious dark poetry imbued with European sensibility and history? Then read #willstone @shearsmanbooks
Extraordinary mix of brutality and tenderness in this poem by @rickyraypoet from @flyonthewall_poetry I hope to review this soon
Opening of my new blog looking at #louismacneice #prayerbeforebirth #faberandfaber so often set at #gcseenlishlanguage #edexcelenglish #ocrenglishlit go to @martyncrucefix.com
My review of #heidiwilliamson #returnbyminorroads collection from @bloodaxebooks has just been posted #https://martyncrucefix.com/2020/11/10/on-the-side-of-hope-heidi-williamsons-return-by-minor-roads/#dunblaneprimaryschool
Such a tender poem by #MarioPetrucci from #cinnamonpress #afterlove
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