Burl Horniachek
burlhorniachek.bsky.social
Burl Horniachek
@burlhorniachek.bsky.social
Huntress” by Timothy Murphy. From Hunter’s Log (North Dakota State UP, 2011).
April 15, 2025 at 1:55 PM
“How I Like It” by Mario dell'Arco, translated by @marcadimartino.bsky.social. From Dell’Arco: Days Last Forever: Selected Poems (@worldpoetrybook, 2025).
April 13, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Paired with this painting by Doig, “House in Clouds.”
April 13, 2025 at 5:02 PM
“Santa Cruz III” by Derek Walcott. From Morning, Paramin (FSG, 2016), with painter Peter Doig.
April 13, 2025 at 5:02 PM
“Breakwater in Cobourg” by Canadian poet Richard Greene. From Dante’s House (Vehicule, 2013).
April 12, 2025 at 3:15 PM
“Successive Yellows” by Richard Wakefield. From A Vertical Mile (Able Muse, 2012).
April 12, 2025 at 3:13 PM
“The Sleeper in the Valley” by Arthur Rimbaud, translated by Canadian poet Marc Di Saverio. From Di Saverio: Sanatorium Songs (Palimpsest, 2013).
February 22, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Merry Christmas!
December 26, 2024 at 12:18 AM
“Songs on the Birth of Our Lord” by Franciszek Karpiński, translated by Watson Kirkconnell
December 25, 2024 at 5:11 PM
“A Room for Still Life” by John Finlay. From Collected Poems (⁦‪@WisebloodBooks‬⁩, 2023).
December 13, 2024 at 5:21 AM
“Elementary Alchemy” by Canadian poet Daryl Hine. From Recollected Poems (Fitzhenry&Whiteside, 2007).
December 2, 2024 at 7:41 PM
For Dante fans, this will be out this week. The whole thing in terza rima.
December 1, 2024 at 10:14 PM
The translation of the Five Great Odes of Paul Claudel by Jonathan Geltner (Ignatius, 2020) is a banger.
December 1, 2024 at 10:11 PM
“An Incoming Call” by Canadian poet P.W. Bridgman (@pwbwriter1.blusky.social). From A Lamb (Ekstasis, 2018).
November 29, 2024 at 3:56 PM
“New Canaan” by Ricardo Sternberg. From One River: New and Selected Poems (Vehicule, 2024).
November 28, 2024 at 7:07 PM
Fiction al poetry priorities.
November 25, 2024 at 12:04 AM
Canto 1 of the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, translated by Seamus Heaney
November 24, 2024 at 9:07 PM
Canto 1 of the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, translated by Canadian poet Marc Di Saverio
November 24, 2024 at 12:53 AM
Best case would be to get a copy of the big Collected, ignore most of it and read all of Birds Beasts and Flowers, Last Poems and the formal poems. Shorter case would be to read the Tortoise poems in BBF. Here are the beginning and end of Tortoise Shout.
November 21, 2024 at 9:59 PM