See here
and here
and here
and here for more on my Petrarch
obsession/project, including how to purchase Petrarch 3 from Crater Press. Read a doggie version of Petrarch's third poem here.
But these, of course, come before the Wyatt poems in what is a sequence of sequences. I do read the first 8 or so 'Haps' here on
video at the Sheppard Symposium, including the poem published in The Wolf, up to and including the ones just then completed.
It’s sad to say this is the last issue of the magazine but
it is good to share it with Patricia Farrell, Chris McCabe, John Wilkinson,
Robert Hampson, Antony Rowland, Ilya Kaminsky, Geraldine Monk, along with many
other writers I’ve not met, AND a large number of students and former students
who co-editor James Byrne have taught over the years at Edge Hill: Adam Hampton, Joanne
Ashcroft, Jessica Tillings, Brendan Quinn, and Susan Comer (that's her art work on the cover above).
I’m also sad because I’ve appeared in The Wolf a number of times, and it's become a regular shelter, if not a home. I’ve written two reviews, one of
Rosmarie Waldrop (not overlapping in any way with the chapter on her work in The Meaning of Form). That may be
accessed here.
And one of Christopher Middleton (which is a missing chapter from The Meaning of Form – the reader wanted it removed). I wrote about his poetry of the 1970s, and his poetics piece 'Reflections on a Viking Prow', but revised it for The Wolf; that can be accessed here and here.
(Oliver Dixon has some nice things to say about it here. An
introduction to The Meaning of Form and links to its formative pieces are found here.)
I have had a number of poems published, including the collaborative
EUOIA poem written with Kelvin Corcoran, the work of Eua Ionnou, (read her biography here.) in Issue 33, that also had a review of
my History or Sleep: Selected Poems, by
Nikolai Duffy. I write about that issue here.
A Wolf interview with me, conducted by Chris Madden
still may be read here. In an earlier Wolf Chris had reviewed Berlin Bursts and
gave an account of my reading at Bluecoat.This is the best and most searching interview with me!
So, all in all a long association with an even
longer-running magazine, ably edited by James Byrne and by Sandeep Parmar, who
has a review of Amali Rodrigo in this issue. Best wishes to them both!
James, in his editorial, promises further activity under the sign of THE WOLF,
online. Watch that cyberspace!
