The Text of Shelley's Death (Limited Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Halsey, Alan

Poetry

West House Books

In this essay, originally delivered as a lecture to The Blake Society in 1994, Welsh poet David Annwn considers the origin of Blake's vision of the Bard, tracing it back through Thomas Gray to the great Welsh bardic poems of Aneurin and Taliesin. He goes on to follow its recent history, from W.B. Yeats to the modernist poetics of Robert Duncan.

Hear the Voice of the Bard!

Annwn, David

British poet Gavin Selerie's "Roxy" -- the name a diminutive of Roxana, Roxolana, Roxena, type-names which denote a sultry, ambitious woman, originally an oriental queen -- is a kaleidoscope of female presences, filtered through a male consciousness. She is a film star, an oriental or Egyptian queen, a romance novelist, a fashion model, an office worker, a sweatshop seamstress, a night-club hostess. She is a hedonist and a puritan. Such types emerge and disappear in a continual process of redefinition.

Roxy

Selerie, Gavin

A Robin Hood Book

Stalking Within Yer Chamber: Some Notes for a Reading of David Jones' in Parenthesis

History & Criticism

The London

Rees, David

Danse Macabre

Corcoran, Kevin

Poetry. The Caseg-Fedi, the Celtic harvest horse, and the ancient Goddess-centered ceremonies of August preside over this sequence by Anglo-Welsh poet David Annwn. Turbulent layers: languages of conflicting technologies, nations, and claims on human consciousness push at their boundaries. This is felt poetry, and poetry sounded in syllable and phrase and passage ... a poetry of the intelligence -- Jeremy Hooker. Saddlestapled chapbook.

Turbulent/ Boundaries

Poetry. In Martin Corless-Smith's poems there are many voices, heard and misheard in fragments fused in startling array. They are dialect poems, but the dialect undergoes constant shift, a wealth of vernacular only loosely bound to time and place: grammar twists and bends as echoes are sounded of an older written language, lively ghosts of speech. Corless-Smith embraces the themes and devices of the pastoral, with and without irony, to create the rituals of Worcestershire Mass and the intermittent masque of The Garden. These poems seem always to demand performance, but it is a performance they also, for the sheer pleasure of unruliness, resist.

Complete Travels

Corless-Smith, Martin

Poetry. Like an extra rolled-up dimension associated with a point in spacetime, de Wit's footnotes are also the place where a poetry of statement, of the drive towards explanation, confronts the material density of language -- an encounter more like sex than war, rearranging sense in a parallel order which delights this reader, then does it again -- Peter Manson. The co-existence of the text and footnotes splits the poem along two axes of reading in a way which creates a multi-systemicity and opens up language itself as a medium -- Robert Sheppard.

Hippototescopo

Wit, Johan De

De Wit, Johan

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