Tag: Poetry Foundation
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Excerpts from ‘microliths’ by Paul Celan
from ‘Microliths’ 161 Remembering also premembering, prethinking and storing of what could be Yeats: I certainly owe more to that poet than to Fr. surreal. Strange. In front of a candle Now I tried to render visible the grain of sand (Buber, Chass. — //Nibelungens[on]g) that had to have been sunk into me too at some […]
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Ilya Kaminsky on Paul Celan, Poetry Magazine
Of strangeness that Wakes us by Ilya Kaminsky Published Poetry Magazine, January 2013. A Publication of the Poetry Foundation Todesfuge, by Paul Celan is a poem that I have mentioned here on Poethead in a variety of guises since I first read the poet Paul Celan in Fathomsuns’ and ‘Benighted’ (Carcanet, Trans. by Ian fairley) Later, I […]
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2012 Poets and Poetry Sites
“ I wanted to read or hear the narrative of someone else – a woman and a poet – who has gone here and been there. Who had lifted the kettle to a gas-stove. Who had set her skirt out over a chair, near to the clothes dryer, to have it without creases for the […]
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‘Song’ by Edith Sitwell
Said the Bee to the Lion ‘ My life is a gold prayer-‘ Said the laughing Sun ‘My life is the gold air’ Said the Lion to the Bee ‘My life is that of the sun ; in hot gold, I rage through the gold air’ But I who have known the weight […]
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Online sounds , the spoken word.
Writers encounter archives mostly, and sound-work is no exception, for instance I encountered UBUWEB whilst researching Celtic mouth Music and Joesph Beuys. Kenneth Goldsmith’s idea to make film, poetry and music available online was sheer avant-gardeism. I have written about UBUWEB before now here, and I recommend the Poetry Foundation link at the top of this page as an […]
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Poetry and digitisation; how derivatives occur.
The meaning of collaborative work in Poetry and Literature. The author is entitled to ownership of their work. In poetic terms, derivatives do occur, mostly in music and in translations. As stated before on this blog, derivatives are seen as adding to the original works, once attribution is established. The fact that there are appalling […]
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Link to my article on licensing poetry and original work at Writing.ie .
A short time ago I wrote an introductory to the Poetry Foundation discussion on best practices in Fair Use of Poetry, which should serve as a guideline on the creation, licensing and transmission of original materials. ” Fair use, a limitation and exception to the exclusive right granted by copyright law to the author of a […]
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The Count 2010, VIDA data for publishing women in literary magazines
“The TLS is only interested in getting the best reviews of the most important books,” and “while women are heavy readers, we know they are heavy readers of the kind of fiction that is not likely to be reviewed in the pages of the TLS.“ (Peter Stothard, making his own importance) So are Newspaper literary […]
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