‘Is there any new poetry in the wind?’ asked Thomas Hardy once. If you’re staying inside today, and your wi-fi holds up against the isobars, here are some links to try.
Poetry Archive: Obsidian Collection
Today’s top story: the Poetry Archive’s new digital collection dedicated to the work of contemporary Black poets in the UK launched last night, and is available to explore now: https://poetryarchive.org/keystones/obsidian-collection/
StAnza: March 2022
The programme for Scotland’s international poetry festival next month is full of riches, with many readings and other events online:
https://stanzapoetry.org/festival/whats-on/
In Our Time, In Order
Everyone able to access the BBC Sounds archive can be grateful to Stuart Ian Burns, who has organised all episodes of In Our Time using the Dewey Decimal system. English Poetry — as you will know — is 821 (I’m in there talking about W.H. Auden).
https://feelinglistless.blogspot.com/2022/02/cataloguing-bbc-radio-4s-in-our-time.html
Tender Buttons 2022: Strike Edition
‘A circle of fine card board and a chance to see a tassel’: students in Bristol make collages from Gertrude Stein and packaging on a picket-line teach-out with Noreen Masud:
https://parrotsatethemall.wordpress.com/2022/02/17/strike-and-a-gertrude-stein-teachout/
Mimi Khalvati on Eggs and Sonnets
A lovely half-hour podcast conversation (audio and transcription) about a single poem, plus a tip on how to get chickens to lay orange yolks:
https://amouthfulofair.fm/eggs-by-mimi-khalvati/
Path Through Woods Reviewed
Probably best not to go down to the woods today. Instead, try this excellent review by Erik Kennedy of Sam Buchan Watts’ debut collection from Prototype:
http://review31.co.uk/article/view/821/pleasant-sutherings-of-the-shade