We are saddened to hear the news that Clive Wilmer, poet, editor, critic, and academic, died on Thursday 13th March in Cambridge, aged 80.
Wilmer's New and Collected Poems was published by Carcanet in 2012: www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?produc...

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Reading the just arrived August Kleinzahler collection at The Malthouse - waiting to see Patricia Cornelius’ Truth - the place where as it happens I had a beer with AK a few decades ago. Tranter was at the table for sure, but I can’t remember who else. Forbes maybe, before I knew him well.

@deeplyclassical.bsky.social @stariep.bsky.social #A-Haydn-A-Day Bizarrely it seems that Nr. 101 does not appear in the 35 volumes of the Heidelberg cycle but only on their separate London Symphonies 'compilation'. Am I right in thinking this? And is it the only 'missing' symphony from the set?

#A-Haydn-A-Day O what a feeling! No, it's not a car advertisement; it is simply how the graphic design people respond to No.79.

#A-Haydn-A-Day There are so many good recordings of this symphony and its siblings. Sigiswald Kuijken and La Petite Bande's version is one of the stand-outs in today's listening.

Mario Vargas Llosa, Roberto Bolaño, Álvaro Mutis, Horacio Quiroga, Juan Rulfo, Stefan Zweig, etc. thediplomatinspain.com/en/2024/12/1...

#A-Haydn-A-Day #55. After listening to almost 3 hours of Symphony 55's, I may have lost perspective, but at this point it seems that Goberman's version with the Wiener Staatsoper Orchestra brings a different level of energy to the first movement. Klumpp is close but his rush may take the edge off.

Hugo Williams, from ‘Fast Music’ (2024) absolutely hits the nail on the head with this one. ❤️

And this is the most recent of the recent-reading stacks. I enjoyed all of these. Peter Rose’s poetry, all re-reads, but 1st time read all together, which I’m more and more finding the most rewarding way to read poetry. So many of Greene’s stories, after decades, were still clear in my mind.

This stack (from July) was absurdly large because I was waiting to get all the way through Gibbon. The other highlight was reading once again through the old Penguin Ibsens (planning to read their new translations soonish). The Bacon interviews were exceptional.

Having finally given up on the other place I’ll do a few catch up posts here. This recent reading stack was from March. The Quignard (I must get back to him), and the Hofmann poems along with the Roth feuilletons were definitely the highlights.

Recent reading: the Lowry & Jünger I found surprisingly hard going, Lowell mixed, Hoagland enjoyable, Apollo Bay a good surprise, Weinberger & Cavazzoni very good indeed. Sims ok but I preferred the more recent Other Minds. Lydia Davis top notch.

Recently read: the Tabucchi stood out - such a good book - & Sarraute’s essays. Sims entertained (a sprinkling of obscure words). Some oddities in the translation of Tropismes. I’ve a soft spot for the flawed ‘The Bird of Night’, “never rated” by its author. The thin one is Peter Riley’s ‘Proof’.

“the vast Wax Works to which, sooner or later, all literary 'types' are relegated.” (Sarraute)

Butor bringing to mind (for at least this reader) Murnane, in an essay, ‘Research on the Technique of the Novel,’ in Repertoire II (1964), here translated by Richard Howard

Recent reading: a mixed bag. Very glad to have finally got to the Jen Craig and loved Panthers; the Lampe, Carpentier & de Beauvoir were the standouts I think; Ernaux all very good, & am not at all sure about Labatut, and am still trying to work out what I think about Stamm.