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Saw not one but TWO kingfishers in the park this morning. Not the first time I've seen one there, but this time I was able to watch them for a good five minutes darting about catching bugs off the surface of the water before they flew off. Hadn't realised how incredibly fast they are. Made my day.

Found a nice sonnet by him El espejo ¿Por qué persistes, incesante espejo? ¿Por qué duplicas, misterioso hermano, el menor movimiento de mi mano? ¿Por qué en la sombra el súbito reflejo? Eres el otro yo de que habla el griego y acechas desde siempre. En la tersura del agua incierta o del...

Where's the River Poets' urgent tub-thumping modernist manifesto? You have to have a manifesto or it's not a real movement

It's a bit like the futurists in that the manifesto is probably more exciting than the actual work itself

Is your new book out yet Luka?

Maybe he just read the good half

he didn't rate his own stuff at all and said it's more important and more fun to be a reader than a writer

I haven't read any of Borges poems but I like listening to him speak about poetry

@sus listen to these

From what I've gathered she's closer to Bloom than Kenner in taste (no time for Ezra Pound, loves Wallace Stevens) but less self-important and show off than the former. Good for that quite traditional close reading style of criticism. A good reader.

I think she's a good critic in that she just sticks to talking about the poems themselves rather than bringing all these tedious -isms into it.

That's sad, I really liked her. Wanted to get one of her books on Wallace Stevens but they're too expensive now. Her book on Shakespeare's sonnets is supposed to be great too.

An old french word for a type of arrow fired from a crossbow apparently