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Thinking about chocolate
Leeds Stanza February 2025 choice : June Jordan 'Haruko/Love Poems' 'Haruko/Love Poems' by June Jordan The story of this book begins with...
Bob Dunning
Feb 134 min read
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Sugar Cube Lies
The commission is an unusual beast, someone asks for a poem on a subject, the poet goes away and thinks about it and comes up with the...
Bob Dunning
Jun 23, 20234 min read
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Unredeemed Adventures - Newsletter One
18 December 2021 Here is 14 poetry things to do today! See these events and more featured on the Poetry News page. ​ 1) (From Eventbrite...
Bob Dunning
Dec 18, 20216 min read
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I Moved My Mind
Today's reading: The Rialto no.95, pp46-064. (The Rialto 95 Completed.) The title comes from Michael Mackmin's introduction and using it...
Bob Dunning
May 16, 20214 min read
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Understanding Drained From His Skull
A review of today's reading 'Memorial. An Excavation of the Iliad' by Alice Oswald pp 57-84 (end). Faber and Faber, 2011. I am in the...
Bob Dunning
May 7, 20213 min read
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The Tempo of the Day
A review of Reach Poetry issue 266 This is the first Reach Poetry magazine I have read, so in that sense I suppose this is a review of...
Bob Dunning
Apr 30, 20215 min read
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Concrete Specific Sounds
This is a review of: Launching MPT (Modern Poetry in Translation) 'Clean Hands: Focus on the Pandemic in Europe'. Go to the MPT YouTube...
Bob Dunning
Apr 28, 20215 min read
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'Hive-minded, symbiotic, experimental and downright radical works of art.'
(Quote form the magazine introduction.) Magma Poetry 78: 'Collaborations' 16 April 2021 pp 1-25, 17 April 2021 pp 26-41 & 69-72...
Bob Dunning
Apr 17, 20214 min read
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Oscillating Logics
14 April 2021 'Contains Mild Peril' Fran Lock pp83-84. The final part of the book is given over to a single poem 'dead / sea', a ten part...
Bob Dunning
Apr 14, 20214 min read
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I know thee not old man
'Shakespeare For Every Day of the Year' edited by Allie Esiri MacMillan 2019 pp 146-159 So with the website to create and update, I had...
Bob Dunning
Apr 12, 20213 min read
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Fear death by water
9th April 'Contains Mild Peril ' Fran Lock pp 76-82 Fran Lock's 'Contains Mild Peril'. Prior to starting the website I was reading this...
Bob Dunning
Apr 9, 20213 min read
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To Look Into The Core
'Read Me A Poem a Day' 9th April 2021 'Read Me A Poem a Day for the National Year of Reading.' Chosen by Gaby Morgan, pp 278-283. OK so...
Bob Dunning
Apr 5, 20212 min read
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