@jeremyover.bsky.social
Poet. New book 'Fourth & Walnut' due out Feb 2025 with @carcanet.bsky.social
This sounds such a great project!
16.03.2025 14:24 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
'The wandering, idling, randomised approach, the mindlessness of hanging around, the embrace of entropy – all this is the cri de coeur of his extraordinary book of levity.'
Jonathan Wooding on @jeremyover.bsky.social, for The Friend: thefriend.org/article/fourth-walnut
This week our Meet the Author video is by Tom Raworth, writer of Cancer, which is published this month! 📃
Click below to hear Tom read Logbook, one of three sections of Cancer, at San Francisco State University on November 3, 1976.
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From the Carcanet blog archive: Ian Brinton's article on Tom Raworth and Elaine Feinstein's poetry magazines, published in 2017.
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Really happy about this. And what a blue blue sky! Thank you @carcanet.bsky.social
13.02.2025 15:34 — 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Join us online at 7pm on Wednesday 26th February to celebrate the launch of Fourth and Walnut by @jeremyover.bsky.social! The event will be hosted by Matthew Welton and will feature readings, discussion & audience Q&A.
Book your ticket here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
![ADVICE TO A YOUNG POET
"There is only one way. Go within yourself. Explore what is calling you to write; check whether it is rooted in the deepest part of your heart, admit to yourself whether you would have to die if you were not able to write. This above all: ask yourself in the quietest hour of your night: must I write? Dig deep within yourself for the truth. And if the answer is yes, if you can reply clearly with a simple I must then build your life upon this [...] To feel that one could live without writing is enough of a sign that one should not.'
Rilke (Letter to a Young Poet)
'When a great and unique soul speaks the small ones must remain silent'
Franz Kappus (Rilke's 'Young Poet')
Dear Small Ones,
Be careful with Rilke. In the quietest hour of your night, in particular, don't listen to him. And don't join the Austrian army just yet. Try and get back to sleep and don't drink so much black tea tomorrow. When the day finally breaks, listen instead to James Broughton (or was it Ted Shawn or the Grateful Dead - does it really matter?): 'When in doubt, twirl'.
Then to Gaston Bachelard:
'What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak... It was born in the moments when we accumulated silent things within us. The brook will nonetheless teach you to speak, in spite of sorrows and memories, it will teach you euphoria through euphuism, energy through the poem. It will repeat incessantly some beautiful, round word which rolls over rocks.
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ADVICE TO A YOUNG POET "There is only one way. Go within yourself. Explore what is calling you to write; check whether it is rooted in the deepest part of your heart, admit to yourself whether you would have to die if you were not able to write. This above all: ask yourself in the quietest hour of your night: must I write? Dig deep within yourself for the truth. And if the answer is yes, if you can reply clearly with a simple I must then build your life upon this [...] To feel that one could live without writing is enough of a sign that one should not.' Rilke (Letter to a Young Poet) 'When a great and unique soul speaks the small ones must remain silent' Franz Kappus (Rilke's 'Young Poet') Dear Small Ones, Be careful with Rilke. In the quietest hour of your night, in particular, don't listen to him. And don't join the Austrian army just yet. Try and get back to sleep and don't drink so much black tea tomorrow. When the day finally breaks, listen instead to James Broughton (or was it Ted Shawn or the Grateful Dead - does it really matter?): 'When in doubt, twirl'. Then to Gaston Bachelard: 'What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak... It was born in the moments when we accumulated silent things within us. The brook will nonetheless teach you to speak, in spite of sorrows and memories, it will teach you euphoria through euphuism, energy through the poem. It will repeat incessantly some beautiful, round word which rolls over rocks. 11
Absolutely delighted to return home to post from the brilliant @jeremyover.bsky.social, containing his astounding new book 'Fourth & Walnut'. Jeremy is a wonderful person and poet, and this book, out next month with @carcanet.bsky.social, is Jeremy at his best.
21.01.2025 20:49 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Thank you so much Aaron. And belated happy birthday! Hope you enjoyed Stamford Bridge
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The cover of Fourth & Walnut by Jeremy Over on a gold background. The cover features a blue and yellow line drawing of a person with wings above a person on an island. Artwork by Brinsley Le Fanu, from Eyes and No Eyes (or the Art of Seeing) and The Three Giants, W.T. Stead.
🌰Equal parts commonplace book, instruction manual and cheerful vandalism, Fourth & Walnut by Jeremy Over (jeremyover.bsky.social) is absurdly joyful, gathering words from a range of writers and artists, erasing some and fooling with others.
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A graphic of four books on a green background with the Carcanet logo above them. Text reads: January - February 2025.
Say hello to our January - February titles! ☁️
All our books published in January and February can be pre-ordered from the Carcanet site using the code JNFB2025 for 20% off and free UK P&P.
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Me too. So far so good!
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