Resharing this essay I wrote for @creativecritical.bsky.social. When I wrote it, I thought it was a reflection on the past. I now see it was a guide to my future.
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'Any free time should have been spent on publishable work that might improve my prospects. But I was exhausted that evening. I idly flipped through Auden, paused on the poem ‘Lullaby’, and picked up a dusty guitar with my other hand.'
New on our website: J.T. Welsch on setting poems to music.
'Any free time should have been spent on publishable work that might improve my prospects. But I was exhausted that evening. I idly flipped through Auden, paused on the poem ‘Lullaby’, and picked up a dusty guitar with my other hand.'
New on our website: J.T. Welsch on setting poems to music.
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Love the glimpse into the beautiful mind that notated this used copy of Moby Dick I got
Today I have written about the delights of J. H. Prynne, the grand old Cantabrigian late modernist who died recently. (And a bit about his close contemporary, Geoffrey Hill.)
Very proud to be publishing @ajbwells.bsky.social's ingenious piece on Banjo Paterson, 'the best-known and least-liked poet in Australia'.
Please read and share widely!
By Irina Dumitrescu. A talk given at the Creative Critical launch event at UCL's Institute for Advanced Studies in September 2022.
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Might the first-person critical-creative voice be a marker not of identification with one’s subject, nor of the collapsing of critical distance, but rather a different kind of creative act that afford...
Might the first-person critical-creative voice be a marker not of identification with one’s subject, nor of the collapsing of critical distance, but rather a different kind of creative act that afford...
#EnglishCreates: Futures
Today, Dr JT Welsch (University of York) re-examines the so-called 'death of reading':
'Like most clickbait, these rants rest on a false opposition. There’s no real war between print and digital media.'
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'No, there was something in the poetry itself, something that I was unable to simply dismiss as nostalgic white-nationalist kitsch-mongering, something bittersweet and strange that seemed to rumble away beneath the surface of the text.'
New on our website: @ajbwells.bsky.social on Banjo Paterson
'No, there was something in the poetry itself, something that I was unable to simply dismiss as nostalgic white-nationalist kitsch-mongering, something bittersweet and strange that seemed to rumble away beneath the surface of the text.'
New on our website: @ajbwells.bsky.social on Banjo Paterson
Matthew Taunton
By Alexander Wells. A.B. ‘Banjo’ Paterson (1864–1941) is probably the best-known and least-liked poet in Australia. His bush ballads, as they are called, still get inflicted on Australian school stude...
By Alexander Wells. A.B. ‘Banjo’ Paterson (1864–1941) is probably the best-known and least-liked poet in Australia. His bush ballads, as they are called, still get inflicted on Australian school stude...
