Michael Grant
Tuesday, 26 March 2013
THE POEM AS SUCH: THE REAL
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I want to say that the poem, not through the material support given it by language, but on the strength of its being a poem of the...
Monday, 11 June 2012
ON CHARLES OLSON
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The negativity of Olson’s hell is not that of Dante, despite references to the Inferno, nor that of Eliot, for whom any such negativity is a...
Thursday, 22 December 2011
SOME RECENT WORK BY SIMON SMITH
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First Ode First (vErisimilitUde, 2011) The Mayakovsky Ode (vErisimilitUde, 2011) The recent writing of Simon Smith is a writing of interval...
Friday, 8 July 2011
GLASS TRACE
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I saw you walk across a sea of dazzling glass towards me I thought then that it was you who spoke there is the sun and there is the rain and...
Saturday, 25 June 2011
THE SOUND OF THE VOICES
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No one names you. There’s no sound, no voice. You’re left alone enclosed by the dark boats. The ground you stand on Is uncertain, and the wo...
ON HIS MORTALITY
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The doctor told me: get on with it, smoke your Virginias and drink your schnapps! It’s obvious that with or without them we all have to go i...
Sunday, 22 May 2011
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ON BLACK SATURDAY AT THE ELEVENTH HOUR OF THE NIGHT BEFORE EASTER: AFTER BRECHT, MANUAL OF PIETY In the spring and under the green heavens S...
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