- Part 6

Music of Verse Continued

Posted by Colin Holcombe on 13 02 14 in Poetry | 0 comments

I left an earlier post on the music of verse suggesting that, while there was an aural symbolism lying deep in the unconscious, and perhaps most evocative when experienced in the semi-hypnotic condition induced by verse, the conscious mind still has to be satisfied. Kubla Khan’s magic, I noted, disappeared on parody. It’s possible to analyze actual examples -though there are many difficulties (2-3) – and Ronald Carter and Walter Nash’s simple introduction to styles in English in fact devotes several pages to the verse patterning exhibited by Browning’s Meeting by Night, which readers will remember starts with: The grey sea and the long black land; And the yellow half-moon large and low; And the startled little waves that leap In fiery ringlets from their sleep, As I gain the cove with pushing prow, And quench its speed i’...

5 Tonalist Poets from Jacket Magazine

Posted by Colin Holcombe on 8 02 14 in Poetry | 0 comments

Five Tonalist Poets from Jacket Magazine: Normal Cole, E. Tracy Grinnel, Geraldine Monk and Alli Warren

Horace: The Odes. New Translations by Contemporary Poets

Posted by Colin Holcombe on 12 01 14 in Reviews | 0 comments

A review of Horace: The Odes. New Translations by Contemporary Poets. J.D. McClatchy (ed.). Princeton University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-691-04919-X

4 Poets from the Harvard Review Online

Posted by Colin Holcombe on 28 12 13 in Poetry | 0 comments

4 Poets from the Harvard Review Online: Lee Rosi, James Hoch, Todd Boss and Greg McBride.

4 Poets in Gulf Coast Magazine

Posted by Colin Holcombe on 21 12 13 in Poetry | 0 comments

5 Poets in Gulf Coast: Jennifer Moxley, David Welch, Joseph Campana, Beckian Fritz Goldberg and Sharon Olds

Money and Poetry

Posted by Colin Holcombe on 19 12 13 in Criticism | 0 comments

Money and poetry: parallels between the creation of money and the contemporary value of poetry: what needs to be done.

3 Poets in the Griffith Review

Posted by Colin Holcombe on 15 12 13 in Poetry | 0 comments

3 Poets from the Griffith Review: Bruce Dawe, John Kinsella and Margaret Merrilles.

Dusie Literary Shenanigans

Posted by Colin Holcombe on 10 12 13 in Poetry | 0 comments

Experimental poetics at Dusie: the work of Chris Sylverster, Alli Warren, Alexander Lara, Todd Lerew and Samantha Gorman.

In Praise of Literary Criticism

Posted by Colin Holcombe on 2 12 13 in Criticism | 1 comment

Literary criticism, the dumbing down of debate and similarities with the financial institutions.

5 Poets from Cha

Posted by Colin Holcombe on 23 11 13 in Poetry | 0 comments

5 Poets from Cha: Anu Elizabeth Roche, Chris Tse, Jenna Le and Christopher Kelen

Music of Verse

Posted by Colin Holcombe on 19 11 13 in Poetry | 0 comments

The music of verse: examples and the role it plays.

4 Poets in the Bellevue Literary Review

Posted by Colin Holcombe on 17 11 13 in Poetry | 0 comments

Four poets in the Bellevue Literary Review: Chard deNiord, Virginia Chase Sutton, Brenna Working Lemieux and Amanda Auchter.