Dominic Leonard
@dominicleonard.bsky.social
Poet, teacher & drummer. Reviews in the TLS.
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happy birthday Elizabeth Bishop 🎈
February 8, 2024 at 3:01 PM
happy birthday Elizabeth Bishop 🎈
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On 5th February 1963, Sylvia Plath wrote her last two poems. I wrote about how one of them, "Balloons", is a neglected statement of what she wanted to do in poetry, which has room for both Winnie the Pooh and W.B. Yeats someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/pinks-13-b...
Pinks #13: Boons, Boons
Was "Balloons" Sylvia Plath's last poem?
someflowerssoon.substack.com
February 5, 2024 at 10:27 AM
On 5th February 1963, Sylvia Plath wrote her last two poems. I wrote about how one of them, "Balloons", is a neglected statement of what she wanted to do in poetry, which has room for both Winnie the Pooh and W.B. Yeats someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/pinks-13-b...
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When Ted Hughes died in 1999, he left an unfinished translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the great medieval poem about New Year. Here is Hughes relishing the eerie passage where Gawain seeks out the wild Green Chapel of the Green Knight on New Year's Day ('Scouts': high overhanging rocks)
January 1, 2024 at 10:52 AM
When Ted Hughes died in 1999, he left an unfinished translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the great medieval poem about New Year. Here is Hughes relishing the eerie passage where Gawain seeks out the wild Green Chapel of the Green Knight on New Year's Day ('Scouts': high overhanging rocks)
Wallace Stevens
December 27, 2023 at 9:20 PM
Wallace Stevens
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ok images pilfered from Tom Cook at the other place. THE BEST DONNE POEM...
and i will link to this blogpost in lieu of doing alt-text - simply bc it's not going to fit in these two images, apologies aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com/2009/05/noct...
and i will link to this blogpost in lieu of doing alt-text - simply bc it's not going to fit in these two images, apologies aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com/2009/05/noct...
December 13, 2023 at 9:53 PM
ok images pilfered from Tom Cook at the other place. THE BEST DONNE POEM...
and i will link to this blogpost in lieu of doing alt-text - simply bc it's not going to fit in these two images, apologies aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com/2009/05/noct...
and i will link to this blogpost in lieu of doing alt-text - simply bc it's not going to fit in these two images, apologies aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com/2009/05/noct...
As England's Green continues to rightly sweep up every award going, a reminder that you can read my TLS review from some time ago here:
www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/eng...
www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/eng...
December 5, 2023 at 9:58 AM
As England's Green continues to rightly sweep up every award going, a reminder that you can read my TLS review from some time ago here:
www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/eng...
www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/eng...
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poem by abbas ibn al-ahnaf, translated by abdullah al-udhari and g.b.h. wightman (published in the anthology birds through a ceiling of alabaster)
November 26, 2023 at 2:23 AM
poem by abbas ibn al-ahnaf, translated by abdullah al-udhari and g.b.h. wightman (published in the anthology birds through a ceiling of alabaster)
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two poems by Robert Creeley
November 22, 2023 at 3:59 PM
two poems by Robert Creeley
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A Sunday well spent. Morning reading Anne Carson, afternoon writing a poem about the neverending cosmic horror of life on earth, now time for a wine tasting
November 12, 2023 at 3:35 PM
A Sunday well spent. Morning reading Anne Carson, afternoon writing a poem about the neverending cosmic horror of life on earth, now time for a wine tasting
New poem in And Other Poems
November 8, 2023 at 4:28 PM
New poem in And Other Poems
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I can't express how excited I am to share today's conversation with one of my favorite living writers, the extraordinary Bhanu Kapil. With the reissue of the long unavailable Incubation: A Space for Monsters we look across her writing life entire Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/bhan...
Bhanu Kapil : Incubation : A Space for Monsters - Tin House
Bhanu Kapil’s postcolonial feminist road novel Incubation : A Space for Monsters has long been out-of-print. The book of hers that most engages with the mythos and reality of America, Incubation fo...
tinhouse.com
November 1, 2023 at 1:17 PM
I can't express how excited I am to share today's conversation with one of my favorite living writers, the extraordinary Bhanu Kapil. With the reissue of the long unavailable Incubation: A Space for Monsters we look across her writing life entire Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/bhan...
Loved visiting Eton today and seeing, amongst other things, one of the 5 existing originals of Keats's death mask, some of Shelley's graffiti, and the oldest classroom in continuous use in Europe (potentially the world)
October 31, 2023 at 6:16 PM
Loved visiting Eton today and seeing, amongst other things, one of the 5 existing originals of Keats's death mask, some of Shelley's graffiti, and the oldest classroom in continuous use in Europe (potentially the world)
What about melt waffle
October 28, 2023 at 9:19 AM
What about melt waffle
Funnily enough I just nearly broke my ankle at the Temple of Asklepios
October 25, 2023 at 6:44 AM
Funnily enough I just nearly broke my ankle at the Temple of Asklepios
Many paragraphs Donna Tartt writes have opening sentences so good they could be the start of a short story:
"Though Mrs. Fountain had not poisoned the cat, she was nonetheless pleased that it was dead."
"Though Mrs. Fountain had not poisoned the cat, she was nonetheless pleased that it was dead."
October 24, 2023 at 1:11 PM
Many paragraphs Donna Tartt writes have opening sentences so good they could be the start of a short story:
"Though Mrs. Fountain had not poisoned the cat, she was nonetheless pleased that it was dead."
"Though Mrs. Fountain had not poisoned the cat, she was nonetheless pleased that it was dead."
DOM LEONARD THE POET?
October 24, 2023 at 11:47 AM
DOM LEONARD THE POET?
An excellent ghazal by Jericho Brown, which also sounds - from the rhythm, not just the refrain - like it's got Barrett Browning's Musical Instrument playing in the background
October 22, 2023 at 4:18 PM
An excellent ghazal by Jericho Brown, which also sounds - from the rhythm, not just the refrain - like it's got Barrett Browning's Musical Instrument playing in the background
Making mayonnaise from scratch is self care
October 22, 2023 at 11:23 AM
Making mayonnaise from scratch is self care
Watching the only good film ever made
October 21, 2023 at 6:43 PM
Watching the only good film ever made
Shakespeare is never great at endings, but my god every word of this is magnificent
October 18, 2023 at 8:28 PM
Shakespeare is never great at endings, but my god every word of this is magnificent
October 16, 2023 at 9:41 AM
Evangelists over the road playing Christian rock so loudly that I can't focus on reading Saint Augustine. Is this what you want
October 15, 2023 at 4:41 PM
Evangelists over the road playing Christian rock so loudly that I can't focus on reading Saint Augustine. Is this what you want
RIP Louise Glück, what a sad surprise
October 13, 2023 at 7:55 PM
RIP Louise Glück, what a sad surprise