In a recent essay, Paul Stubbs wrote: “The poet of the 21st century will, like any animal, be subject only to the continuing process of adapting to his own biological environment, to create a poetry that must strive in its imagination to actually affect the planetary balance (…) The pen in the hand today need […]
Tag Archives: Blandine Longre
The Black Herald #2: Freedom from the necessity of success – Part One.
posted by lisathatcher
It is the ambitious hopes of editor poets Blandine Longre and Paul Stubbs that The Black Herald only publish works that are: “… vital and original, and above all else, might well incubate itself to the exterior world of publicity – though this is the hope of the editors, not necessarily the writers themselves.” They […]
Tomas Tranströmer wins the Nobel Prize for Literature 2011
posted by lisathatcher
I hadn’t read much of surrealist poet Tomas Tranströmer until recently when a revived interest in Poetry (thank you Blandine Longre and Paul Stubs) had me engaging with my google search bar and my ‘great contemporary poets’ generic feed. I’m glad I read some, because he won the Nobel Prize for Literature today (anyone who […]
Clarities – Blandine Longre A review
posted by lisathatcher
One of my favourite throw away lines that gains little social impact and yet means everything to me is that it is a magnificent time in history to be a woman. Perhaps not the very best time (I hope that is still to come) but the best the world has been able to offer thus […]
Lisa Thatcher 