Tag Archive | "poetry"

Director’s Commentary: Nick Hayes on the Rime of the Modern Mariner

Monday, March 28, 2011

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One of the graphic novels I’ve been really enjoying reading recently is the full-length debut by noted Guardian cartoonist Nick Hayes, the Rime of the Modern Mariner, which the nice folks at Jonathan Cape were kind enough to send me (the book is due out in early April). It’s a lovely looking work – even [...]

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Angelheaded hipsters burning: poetry, censorship and animation – Howl

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

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“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night, who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking [...]

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National Poetry Day

Thursday, October 7, 2010

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Today marks the annual National Poetry Day, verse and rhyme across the UK – to get in the spirit we asked our comics friends to play. Okay, I will stop trying to do badly rhymed sentences now that would make McGonagle wince… It is indeed National Poetry Day today and just for a little bit [...]

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Liz Lochhead discusses Metaphrog

Thursday, October 29, 2009

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Scottish poet and playwright Liz Lochhead was on Scottish Television’s The Hour discussing Metaphrog‘s delightful comics adaptation of her friend, the great Edwin Morgan’s sci-fi poem The First Men on Mercury, which the Glasgow duo adapted for the Association for Scottish Literary Studies for National Poetry Day earlier this month (see here to enjoy the [...]

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The First Men on Mercury

Thursday, October 8, 2009

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Happy National Poetry Day to you all! As I mentioned the other week the Association for Scottish Literary Studies has decided to mark this year’s UK National Poetry Day by asking Glasgow’s delightful Metaphrog to adapt The First Men on Mercury, a science fiction themed poem from the man that I (and a lot of [...]

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Comics, science fiction and poetry

Friday, September 25, 2009

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In the UK the 8th of October will be National Poetry Day, an day to encourage people to read or listen to some wonderful verse. Its not always easy, even with heavy readers; too many people say “I don’t like poetry”, which always seems odd to me to be so dismissive – I ask them [...]

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