Graeme Richardson

"They fuck not up as we that are left fuck up"

Bound Voices #001: A Conversation with Victoria Moul Where Pindar meets the nursery — poetry’s past and present in conversation.

Some readers of my substack might be interested in this interview I did with Greg Allum as part of the launch of his new Ink and Ribbon press:

What he needs is something akin to the book John Carey wrote about Dickens - the Violent Effigy - where all the best descriptions are pulled from the morass and given their due.

When I wrote to him aged 23, he wrote back almost by return of post - encouragingly, graciously, and with good advice. He was a panentheist - God is in everything - a position that has its merits but doesn't encourage a descriptive writer to make cuts.

My comment, for @pnreview.bsky.social, on the Len Pennie & Sarah Doyle affair - or Canongagegate, as I like to think of it. Honourable mentions: @naush.bsky.social, @thetimes.com.

Feel free to share, to attack me with your little jelly pitchforks, or to ignore.

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On whether or not a harsh review is pointless, I call, as my next witness, Michael Hulse:

I'm amused to discover that Peter Porter, reviewing Michael Hofmann's first collection 'Nights in the Iron Hotel' for the Observer, described it as 'glum', 'leaden', 'turgid', and 'a remorseless set of patronising vignettes'.

Jeremy Noel-Tod - The Pen & the Spade Jeremy Noel-Tod: The Pen & the Spade - The Poems of Seamus Heaney by Rosie Lavan, Bernard O’Donoghue and Matthew Hollis (edd.)

Nice to make the cover of the latest Literary Review for my piece on the enormous new Poems of Seamus Heaney. It's free to read here: literaryreview.co.uk/the-pen-the-...

Among the 5000 German war dead in Cannock Chase Cemetery... History surprising and complex.

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: New Walk Editions launch: Sean O'Brien and Mark Ford. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. Join us for the launch of exceptional, surprising pamphlets by two of the finest and most highly acclaimed poets writing today. MARK FORD, The Morlocks: A Fantasia SEAN O'BRIEN, A la Carte The even...

Attend the New Walk Editions online reading with Mark Ford and Sean O'Brien, 7pm on 20 November. It'll be excellent, I assure you.

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Graeme Richardson — Bad Lilies Three poems by Graeme Richardson

I love all the @badlilies.bsky.social babies (so to speak!) equally but this sequence by @ravoon.bsky.social is worthy of some attention ahead of his collection coming out next year badlilies.uk/graeme-richardson-1

Worth hearing him youtu.be/PhO81S666Ok?...

Thank you, Luke

Graeme Richardson — Bad Lilies Three poems by Graeme Richardson

A taste of my forthcoming book, thanks to @badlilies.bsky.social - www.badlilies.uk/graeme-richa...

The place to be seen!

But it wasn't his landlady and he didn't push her down the stairs!

Just teasing, Rishi...

Yes, it's even more obvious now that it should have won the Forward Prize in 2022.

I like this, by Clare Pollard - the best "lockdown" poem in a very overcrowded field - and now included in her new collection "Lives of the Female Poets". Note the quietly infectious internal rhymes...

oh ho you lovely man - thank you

I taught him the dance to "Saturday Night" by Whigfield

Steady on, Sophie! But thank you very much. That means a lot, coming from you.

Thanks, Rachel

I'm thrilled to say that my collection "Dirt Rich" will be published by Carcanet in January. I've been working at it for almost 30 years: love poems, elegies, lamentations, jokes... The aim is "all killer no filler". Please buy it if you can. Here's Andrew Latimer's brilliant cover:

Correct, even if (ironically) only part of you is saying it.

JN-T's substack this week laugh-out-loud funny at points! Highly recommended

Haha!

That's very kind, Paul, thanks!

Thanks Ian! Yes, don't worry, I'll give you plenty of time to get away 👍

Thank you!