The Best American Poetry

Martin Stannard, Guest Blogger September 4-10

This week we welcome Martin Stannard as our guest blogger. Martin is a poet and critic from England. He was editor of the magazine joe soap's canoe from 1978 to 1991, and was the Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow at Nottingham Trent U...

Martin Stannard: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]

_________________________________________________________________________ Princess of Thieves Since you left I’ve been absolutely fine, And I have something else I want to say: That “Best of Phil Collins” CD you have is mine. ...

Martin Stannard on John Ashbery's Unfinished Works

review by Martin Stannard PARALLEL MOVEMENT OF THE HANDS – Five Unfinished Longer Works, John Ashbery (Emily Skillings, Editor) 265pp. pub. Carcanet (UK) Ecco (USA) These days the John Ashbery phenomenon, somewhat thanks to the intern...

More About Jeremy Twill by Martin Stannard

I made mention in my first post of the poet Jeremy Twill. He is not very well-known, to be honest, and those of his poems that have seen the light of publishing day were printed in somewhat obscure, pre-internet and now defunct journals....

MARK HALLIDAY AT "DECALS OF DESIRE" [by Martin Stannard]

In 2003 I was invited to read at the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival on England’s east coast. At the welcome party I was buttonholed by the Festival director, who said she had someone she wanted me to meet. Moments later I was saying Hello to ...

Five Years On: The Day JA Died

[Robert Creeley, Allen Ginsberg, and John Ashbery – (Photographer Unknown, circa 1965)] “….exquisite mind cartoons that could be heard with eyes closed, the voice perfectly ordinary with the slight edge of extravagant conversational c...