Tristram Fane Saunders

@philiptraylen @AtTheOrpheus Williams and Ashbery over Shakespeare, Homer, Dante?

@AtTheOrpheus whitman, dickinson, ashbery, williams. pound in reserve. i like bishop a lot but she's not that kind of poet.

America has the four greatest poets of all time, but no one really reads them, instead they spend their days spewing a river of ejaculation over their novelists, every single one of which is hilariously bad

Off the Page returns. No phones. No books. Four poets reading entirely from memory. Tickets and more info here: thelondonmagazine.org/product/off-th…

@RoryWaterman Ah well. Sign up for a free trial? Too long to screengrab, it's a feature-length review.

@TATFS Intriguing. But I just slammed headlong into the paywall, and i was going 70.

Can anyone think of any poetry reviews, ever, that express unwavering admiration for the book under review but do not contain any quotation from any of its poems whatsoever?

@pb3166 Thanks! I'd missed that typo

@TATFS Eleven Poems was 1965 not 1955

Seamus Heaney won the Nobel Prize 30 years ago this month. Just 30 years before that, he published his first pamphlet (Eleven Poems, 1955). Are there any poets – at all – who began publishing in the *last* 30 years who now seem like plausible Nobel contenders?

*TYPO: 1965, not 1955. (i.e. 30 years before the Nobel win, as per original tweet.)

Tony Harrison.

@DanielC87173381 But not for this question, as long before the 30-year cut-off.

@TATFS Schnackenberg has the gravitas. If she bulks up the oeuvre.

@phillipcrymble Which is, alas, more than 30 years ago – so before the cut-off. Similarly, I'd narrowly have to rule out Claudia Rankine as, but her first book was 1994 (31 years ago).

@TATFS Carl Phillips (his first collection came out in 1992)

So many important literary mags (& esp. poetry mags) have closed in the last two years: The Honest Ulsterman (est. 1968), Ambit (est.1959), Agenda (est.1959 – but hoping for a revivial), Popshot, The White Review, The Moth, Five Dials, Bad Form, The Cardiff Review...

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Tonight in Cambridge! POETRY @ TRINITY: readings by Isabel Galleymore & Eric Yip, plus open mic. 6pm at the Old Combination Room, Trinity College. Come one, come all!

Launch party for The Little Review! 6pm Thursday (tomorrow) at @heffersbookshop in Cambridge. Come celebrate a small, yellow, impudent magazine.

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