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Martin Stannard, Guest Blogger September 4-10

Martin Stannard

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...

Posted by The Best American Poetry on September 04, 2011 at 06:05 AM in Announcements, Guest Bloggers | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Comment by Martin Stannard on “"Lining-Up (for Charles North)" [by David Lehman]”

This is great fun - although, as an Englishman, I have no idea about baseball and its "positions"...

Posted by: Martin Stannard | June 09, 2020 at 09:40 AM

More About Jeremy Twill by Martin Stannard

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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....

Posted by The Best American Poetry on September 06, 2011 at 08:20 PM in Guest Bloggers | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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

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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 ...

Posted by Martin Stannard on February 03, 2017 at 11:00 PM in "Decals of Desire", Feature, Poems | Permalink | Comments (0)

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"Lively and affectionate" Publishers Weekly

Radio

I left it
on when I
left the house
for the pleasure
of coming back
ten hours later
to the greatness
of Teddy Wilson
"After You've Gone"
on the piano
in the corner
of the bedroom
as I enter
in the dark

from New and Selected Poems by David Lehman