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Mar 18, 2025
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With hope into the lists: Cowley on the eve of civil war
Featuring a previously unpublished poem probably by Abraham Cowley
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Qualiter in ramo
The full text and some discussion of an unpublished poem attributed to Abraham Cowley
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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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How come, Maecenas?
Today’s post is mostly about Horace — with some Wyatt and Jonson at the end.
Feb 5
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Love and compasses
Featuring Jonson, Bacon, John Borough, his wife and their twin sons
Jan 29
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Gift us with long cloaks & adrenaline: on reading and its consolations
With unexpected bonus content courtesy of Cardinal Rinuccini
Jan 22
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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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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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