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The poet's joke
This piece was originally published about a year ago. It’s the third of this summer’s reposts.
I was very struck the other day (that is, about a year ago now) by a poem by Michael Longley that Andrew Neilson posted on Twitter/X. The...
Emily Wilson, 'Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea'
This is a review of Emily Wilson’s recent essay collection, Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys through Ancient Literature (Profile, 2026).
This is a review of Emily Wilson’s recent essay collection, Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys t...
Dazzled with the height of place
Today a piece on the “useful” poem in early modernity, originally published in June 2025.
I’ve written a few times about the importance of anthologies, and the point is hardly confined to contemporary verse: think of the Greek Antho...
Ezra Pound and Homer's Latin
This is the first of my summer reposts, here of a piece from last autumn about Ezra Pound’s encounter with Homer in Latin. I have edited it slightly to add a couple of useful links to more recent material, as there’s been a lot of online di...
Review of Antony Anaxagorou, 'Heritage Aesthetics' (Granta, 2022)
Crawling semantics
This review was first published in The Friday Poem. Anaxagorou’s Heritage Aesthetics won the Royal Society of Literary Ondaatje prize in 20223.
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