Old News – Agenda Poetry

[av_one_full first min_height=” vertical_alignment=” space=” custom_margin=” margin=’0px’ row_boxshadow=” row_boxshadow_color=” row_boxshadow_width=’10’ link=” linktarget=” link_hover=” padding=’0px’ highlight=” highlight_size=” border=” border_color=” radius=’0px’ column_boxshadow=” column_boxshadow_color=” column_boxshadow_width=’10’ background=’bg_color’ background_color=” background_gradient_color1=” background_gradient_color2=” background_gradient_direction=’vertical’ src=” background_position=’top left’ background_repeat=’no-repeat’ animation=” mobile_breaking=” mobile_display=” av_uid=’av-21uog2′]
[av_heading heading=’Old News’ tag=’h3′ link_apply=” link=’manually,http://’ link_target=” style=’blockquote modern-quote modern-centered’ size=’36’ subheading_active=” subheading_size=’15’ margin=” margin_sync=’true’ padding=’10’ color=” custom_font=” av-medium-font-size-title=” av-small-font-size-title=” av-mini-font-size-title=” av-medium-font-size=” av-small-font-size=” av-mini-font-size=” av_uid=’av-k6cf545b’ admin_preview_bg=”][/av_heading]
[/av_one_full]

[av_one_third min_height=” vertical_alignment=” space=” custom_margin=” margin=’0px’ row_boxshadow=” row_boxshadow_color=” row_boxshadow_width=’10’ link=” linktarget=” link_hover=” padding=’0px’ highlight=” highlight_size=” border=” border_color=” radius=’0px’ column_boxshadow=” column_boxshadow_color=” column_boxshadow_width=’10’ background=’bg_color’ background_color=” background_gradient_color1=” background_gradient_color2=” background_gradient_direction=’vertical’ src=” background_position=’top left’ background_repeat=’no-repeat’ animation=” mobile_breaking=” mobile_display=” av_uid=’av-6dd3nm’]
[av_hr class=’default’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-thin’ custom_width=’50px’ custom_border_color=” custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’yes’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ av-desktop-hide=” av-medium-hide=” av-small-hide=” av-mini-hide=” av_uid=’av-4vbl2q’]
[/av_one_third]

[/av_one_third][av_one_half min_height=” vertical_alignment=” space=” custom_margin=” margin=’0px’ row_boxshadow=” row_boxshadow_color=” row_boxshadow_width=’10’ link=” linktarget=” link_hover=” padding=’0px’ highlight=” highlight_size=” border=” border_color=” radius=’0px’ column_boxshadow=” column_boxshadow_color=” column_boxshadow_width=’10’ background=’bg_color’ background_color=” background_gradient_color1=” background_gradient_color2=” background_gradient_direction=’vertical’ src=” background_position=’top left’ background_repeat=’no-repeat’ animation=” mobile_breaking=” mobile_display=” av_uid=’av-2h7nuq’]
[av_image src=’https://www.agendapoetry.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Sueschoolgate.jpg’ attachment=’3501′ attachment_size=’full’ align=’center’ styling=” hover=” link=” target=” caption=” font_size=” appearance=” overlay_opacity=’0.4′ overlay_color=’#000000′ overlay_text_color=’#ffffff’ copyright=” animation=’no-animation’ av_uid=’av-k6csg2qq’ admin_preview_bg=”][/av_image]

[av_button label=’Past Flyers’ link=’manually,https://www.agendapoetry.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Memorabilia.pdf’ link_target=’_blank’ size=’small’ position=’center’ label_display=” icon_select=’yes’ icon=’ue84d’ font=’entypo-fontello’ color=’pink’ custom_bg=’#444444′ custom_font=’#ffffff’ av_uid=’av-k6cskjj6′ admin_preview_bg=”]
[/av_one_half]

[av_one_third min_height=” vertical_alignment=” space=” custom_margin=” margin=’0px’ row_boxshadow=” row_boxshadow_color=” row_boxshadow_width=’10’ link=” linktarget=” link_hover=” padding=’0px’ highlight=” highlight_size=” border=” border_color=” radius=’0px’ column_boxshadow=” column_boxshadow_color=” column_boxshadow_width=’10’ background=’bg_color’ background_color=” background_gradient_color1=” background_gradient_color2=” background_gradient_direction=’vertical’ src=” background_position=’top left’ background_repeat=’no-repeat’ animation=” mobile_breaking=” mobile_display=” av_uid=’av-59cziq’]
[av_hr class=’default’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-thin’ custom_width=’50px’ custom_border_color=” custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’yes’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ av-desktop-hide=” av-medium-hide=” av-small-hide=” av-mini-hide=” av_uid=’av-2l1ozm’]
[/av_one_third]

Very saddened to hear the news that Clive James has died.

Agenda was very happy and fortunate when he agreed to introduce the double Australian issue, kindly hosted by the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, Kings College, 28 Russell Square, London in July 2005
He gave an entertaining homily, talking about the making and the publishing of poetry, about his own poetry and reading a highly evocative poem on his own childhood.
In the Testaments issue of Agenda Vol 51 Nos. 1-2. Sam Milne reviews Clive James’ poetry collection, Injury Time (Picador 2017), It was not his last book, but one of his last very fine poetry collections.
Notes for Broadsheet 29 (an ongoing series for young poets and their mentors, published both in the printed journal and online and put together on this occasion by the editor Patricia McCarthy who features Clive James’s ‘Letter to a Young Poet’.
You can read Notes for Broadsheet Poets 29 at Magazine Supplements, Essays, Broasheets/Notes, Poems & Paintings where they appear below the Testaments issue
or visit Notes for Broadsheet Series where they accompany Testaments Vol 51/1-2
[/av_textblock]
[/av_one_full]

[av_one_half first min_height=” vertical_alignment=” space=” custom_margin=” margin=’0px’ row_boxshadow=” row_boxshadow_color=” row_boxshadow_width=’10’ link=” linktarget=” link_hover=” padding=’0px’ highlight=” highlight_size=” border=” border_color=” radius=’0px’ column_boxshadow=” column_boxshadow_color=” column_boxshadow_width=’10’ background=’bg_color’ background_color=” background_gradient_color1=” background_gradient_color2=” background_gradient_direction=’vertical’ src=” background_position=’top left’ background_repeat=’no-repeat’ animation=” mobile_breaking=” mobile_display=” av_uid=’av-8694vm’]
[av_image src=’https://www.agendapoetry.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Oz-Launch-Clive-James-1030×736.jpg’ attachment=’1839′ attachment_size=’large’ align=’center’ styling=” hover=” link=” target=” caption=” font_size=” appearance=” overlay_opacity=’0.4′ overlay_color=’#000000′ overlay_text_color=’#ffffff’ copyright=” animation=’no-animation’ av_uid=’av-k66e2ist’ admin_preview_bg=”][/av_image]

[av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=” av-medium-font-size=” av-small-font-size=” av-mini-font-size=” av_uid=’av-k66e1ts4′ admin_preview_bg=”]
Clive James, who introduced the launch, in conversation here with Maria Cristina Fumagalli advisor to Agenda at the launch of the Agenda Australian issue Vol 41/1-2 JULY 26th 2005
[/av_textblock]
[/av_one_half]

[av_one_half min_height=” vertical_alignment=” space=” custom_margin=” margin=’0px’ row_boxshadow=” row_boxshadow_color=” row_boxshadow_width=’10’ link=” linktarget=” link_hover=” padding=’0px’ highlight=” highlight_size=” border=” border_color=” radius=’0px’ column_boxshadow=” column_boxshadow_color=” column_boxshadow_width=’10’ background=’bg_color’ background_color=” background_gradient_color1=” background_gradient_color2=” background_gradient_direction=’vertical’ src=” background_position=’top left’ background_repeat=’no-repeat’ animation=” mobile_breaking=” mobile_display=” av_uid=’av-5wr3vm’]
[av_image src=’https://www.agendapoetry.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/4-Australian-Issue.jpg’ attachment=’200′ attachment_size=’full’ align=’center’ styling=” hover=” link=” target=” caption=” font_size=” appearance=” overlay_opacity=’0.4′ overlay_color=’#000000′ overlay_text_color=’#ffffff’ copyright=” animation=’no-animation’ av_uid=’av-41ouaq’ admin_preview_bg=”][/av_image]

[av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=” av-medium-font-size=” av-small-font-size=” av-mini-font-size=” av_uid=’av-354fia’ admin_preview_bg=”]

Australian issue of Agenda

Vol 41 Nos. 1-2

[/av_textblock]
[/av_one_half]

[av_one_third min_height=” vertical_alignment=” space=” custom_margin=” margin=’0px’ row_boxshadow=” row_boxshadow_color=” row_boxshadow_width=’10’ link=” linktarget=” link_hover=” padding=’0px’ highlight=” highlight_size=” border=” border_color=” radius=’0px’ column_boxshadow=” column_boxshadow_color=” column_boxshadow_width=’10’ background=’bg_color’ background_color=” background_gradient_color1=” background_gradient_color2=” background_gradient_direction=’vertical’ src=” background_position=’top left’ background_repeat=’no-repeat’ animation=” mobile_breaking=” mobile_display=” av_uid=’av-35ld2q’]
[av_hr class=’default’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-thin’ custom_width=’50px’ custom_border_color=” custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’yes’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ av-desktop-hide=” av-medium-hide=” av-small-hide=” av-mini-hide=” av_uid=’av-4vbl2q’]
[/av_one_third]

[av_one_third min_height=” vertical_alignment=” space=” custom_margin=” margin=’0px’ row_boxshadow=” row_boxshadow_color=” row_boxshadow_width=’10’ link=” linktarget=” link_hover=” padding=’0px’ highlight=” highlight_size=” border=” border_color=” radius=’0px’ column_boxshadow=” column_boxshadow_color=” column_boxshadow_width=’10’ background=’bg_color’ background_color=” background_gradient_color1=” background_gradient_color2=” background_gradient_direction=’vertical’ src=” background_position=’top left’ background_repeat=’no-repeat’ animation=” mobile_breaking=” mobile_display=” av_uid=’av-c4aio2′]
[av_image src=’https://www.agendapoetry.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Tony-Conran-Front-Cover-199×300.jpg’ attachment=’3435′ attachment_size=’medium’ align=’center’ styling=” hover=” link=” target=” caption=” font_size=” appearance=” overlay_opacity=’0.4′ overlay_color=’#000000′ overlay_text_color=’#ffffff’ copyright=” animation=’no-animation’ av_uid=’av-k5shnbz0′ admin_preview_bg=”][/av_image]
[/av_one_third]

Events to celebrate the launch of Three Symphonies by Tony Conran

Visit Agenda Audio Recordings to listen to extracts from:

‘Tony Conran Remembered’ performed at Another Festival, Caernarfon July 2015

[/av_textblock]
[/av_one_full]

Conran Poetry Chorus

‘Poetry is not essentially literature. Like most of the creative arts it originates from dancing. It is a dance of the vocal chords and the mouth, which only really comes alive when you hear it and see it.’

Tony Conran, 2010

The next launch performances from Three Symphonies will be:

Aberystwyth: Saturday 08 October 2016 7.30pm Y Drwm, National Library of Wales, Penglais Road, Aberystwyth SY23 3BU. Performers: Lesley Conran, Dyfan Roberts, Gwilym Morus, Sheila Brook, John Griffiths with musicians Sioned Webb and ‘Bragod’.

London: Saturday 11 March 2017, The Art Workers’ Guild, Queens Square, London, WC1N 3AT as the final event in a one day colloquium of the David Jones Society ‘(Starlight Order)’. Full Details to follow.

The Conran Poetry Chorus came together in 2009-10 to work with Tony Conran to create vibrant, multi-faceted performances of his works. Using recitation, song, musicianship, choral speaking, dialogue and more, their performances are no ordinary readings. Always, the intrinsic meaning of the poem leads, and the vitality of language and image is vividly and expressively brought to life.

They work with musicians including harpist and composer Sioned Webb and the duo from south Wales – Bragod, Robert Evans and Mary-Anne Roberts, who have set some poems from Three Symphonies to be sung to the medieval Welsh musical measures on crwth and lyre.

Members of Corws Cerddi Conran Poetry Chorus include:

Lesley Conran – Director Tony’s wife and collaborator, a teacher of English and Welsh, folk-singer, vocal and instrumental performer.

Sheila Brook: Vocalist, songwriter and musician with a love of poetry and performance.

Pauline Down: Vocalist, choir leader, arts practitioner an experienced performer.

John Griffiths: Literature teacher, musian and vocal performer.

Gwilym Morus: Musician, songwriter, poet in Welsh and English and vocalist.

Dyfan Roberts: Celebrated Welsh stage, TV and film actor. Vocalist. Founder member of Theatr Bara Caws.
[/av_textblock]
[/av_one_full]

[av_one_half first min_height=” vertical_alignment=” space=” custom_margin=” margin=’0px’ row_boxshadow=” row_boxshadow_color=” row_boxshadow_width=’10’ link=” linktarget=” link_hover=” padding=’0px’ highlight=” highlight_size=” border=” border_color=” radius=’0px’ column_boxshadow=” column_boxshadow_color=” column_boxshadow_width=’10’ background=’bg_color’ background_color=” background_gradient_color1=” background_gradient_color2=” background_gradient_direction=’vertical’ src=” background_position=’top left’ background_repeat=’no-repeat’ animation=” mobile_breaking=” mobile_display=” av_uid=’av-62a0de’]
[av_image src=’https://www.agendapoetry.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Conran-Brook-Roberts.jpg’ attachment=’3433′ attachment_size=’full’ align=’center’ styling=” hover=” link=” target=” caption=” font_size=” appearance=” overlay_opacity=’0.4′ overlay_color=’#000000′ overlay_text_color=’#ffffff’ copyright=” animation=’no-animation’ av_uid=’av-k5shg09r’ admin_preview_bg=”][/av_image]

[av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=” av-medium-font-size=” av-small-font-size=” av-mini-font-size=” av_uid=’av-k5shfqza’ admin_preview_bg=”]
Lesley Conran, Sheila Brook and Dyfan Roberts, Bangor July 2016
[/av_textblock]
[/av_one_half]

[av_one_half min_height=” vertical_alignment=” space=” custom_margin=” margin=’0px’ row_boxshadow=” row_boxshadow_color=” row_boxshadow_width=’10’ link=” linktarget=” link_hover=” padding=’0px’ highlight=” highlight_size=” border=” border_color=” radius=’0px’ column_boxshadow=” column_boxshadow_color=” column_boxshadow_width=’10’ background=’bg_color’ background_color=” background_gradient_color1=” background_gradient_color2=” background_gradient_direction=’vertical’ src=” background_position=’top left’ background_repeat=’no-repeat’ animation=” mobile_breaking=” mobile_display=” av_uid=’av-47b68y’]
[av_image src=’https://www.agendapoetry.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Webb.jpg’ attachment=’3434′ attachment_size=’full’ align=’center’ styling=” hover=” link=” target=” caption=” font_size=” appearance=” overlay_opacity=’0.4′ overlay_color=’#000000′ overlay_text_color=’#ffffff’ copyright=” animation=’no-animation’ av_uid=’av-k5shg9ot’ admin_preview_bg=”][/av_image]

[av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=” av-medium-font-size=” av-small-font-size=” av-mini-font-size=” av_uid=’av-k5shi4ww’ admin_preview_bg=”]
Sioned Webb, Bangor 2016
[/av_textblock]
[/av_one_half]

‘A scintillating, vivid and moving performance.’

Sally Baker, PEN Cymru ‘Tony Conran Remembered’ Caernarfon July 2015

[/av_textblock]
[/av_one_full]

[av_one_third min_height=” vertical_alignment=” space=” custom_margin=” margin=’0px’ row_boxshadow=” row_boxshadow_color=” row_boxshadow_width=’10’ link=” linktarget=” link_hover=” padding=’0px’ highlight=” highlight_size=” border=” border_color=” radius=’0px’ column_boxshadow=” column_boxshadow_color=” column_boxshadow_width=’10’ background=’bg_color’ background_color=” background_gradient_color1=” background_gradient_color2=” background_gradient_direction=’vertical’ src=” background_position=’top left’ background_repeat=’no-repeat’ animation=” mobile_breaking=” mobile_display=” av_uid=’av-35ld2q’]
[av_hr class=’default’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-thin’ custom_width=’50px’ custom_border_color=” custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’yes’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ av-desktop-hide=” av-medium-hide=” av-small-hide=” av-mini-hide=” av_uid=’av-4vbl2q’]
[/av_one_third]

POETRY at the
CASTLE INN
Castle Hill, Cambridge

Sunday 18 November
at 3 for 3.30pm
FREE EVENT
Please buy a drink
Lucy Hamilton introduces
Four high-profile Poets
from Agenda Poetry Journal

Will Stone Patricia McCarthy David Cooke Timothy Adès

[/av_textblock]
[/av_one_full]

[av_one_fourth first min_height=” vertical_alignment=” space=” custom_margin=” margin=’0px’ row_boxshadow=” row_boxshadow_color=” row_boxshadow_width=’10’ link=” linktarget=” link_hover=” padding=’0px’ highlight=” highlight_size=” border=” border_color=” radius=’0px’ column_boxshadow=” column_boxshadow_color=” column_boxshadow_width=’10’ background=’bg_color’ background_color=” background_gradient_color1=” background_gradient_color2=” background_gradient_direction=’vertical’ src=” background_position=’top left’ background_repeat=’no-repeat’ animation=” mobile_breaking=” mobile_display=” av_uid=’av-18ttumq’]
[av_image src=’https://www.agendapoetry.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Patricia-McCarthy.jpg’ attachment=’3506′ attachment_size=’full’ align=’center’ styling=” hover=” link=” target=” caption=” font_size=” appearance=” overlay_opacity=’0.4′ overlay_color=’#000000′ overlay_text_color=’#ffffff’ copyright=” animation=’no-animation’ av_uid=’av-17zq6aa’ admin_preview_bg=”][/av_image]

[av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=” av-medium-font-size=” av-small-font-size=” av-mini-font-size=” av_uid=’av-k617frgl’ admin_preview_bg=”]

Patricia McCarthy

[/av_textblock]
[/av_one_fourth]

[av_one_fourth min_height=” vertical_alignment=” space=” custom_margin=” margin=’0px’ row_boxshadow=” row_boxshadow_color=” row_boxshadow_width=’10’ link=” linktarget=” link_hover=” padding=’0px’ highlight=” highlight_size=” border=” border_color=” radius=’0px’ column_boxshadow=” column_boxshadow_color=” column_boxshadow_width=’10’ background=’bg_color’ background_color=” background_gradient_color1=” background_gradient_color2=” background_gradient_direction=’vertical’ src=” background_position=’top left’ background_repeat=’no-repeat’ animation=” mobile_breaking=” mobile_display=” av_uid=’av-16pk81e’]
[av_image src=’https://www.agendapoetry.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/T-Ades.jpg’ attachment=’3508′ attachment_size=’full’ align=’center’ styling=” hover=” link=” target=” caption=” font_size=” appearance=” overlay_opacity=’0.4′ overlay_color=’#000000′ overlay_text_color=’#ffffff’ copyright=” animation=’no-animation’ av_uid=’av-1533vv6′ admin_preview_bg=”][/av_image]

[av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=” av-medium-font-size=” av-small-font-size=” av-mini-font-size=” av_uid=’av-k617eykg’ admin_preview_bg=”]

Timothy Adès

[/av_textblock]
[/av_one_fourth]

[av_one_fourth min_height=” vertical_alignment=” space=” custom_margin=” margin=’0px’ row_boxshadow=” row_boxshadow_color=” row_boxshadow_width=’10’ link=” linktarget=” link_hover=” padding=’0px’ highlight=” highlight_size=” border=” border_color=” radius=’0px’ column_boxshadow=” column_boxshadow_color=” column_boxshadow_width=’10’ background=’bg_color’ background_color=” background_gradient_color1=” background_gradient_color2=” background_gradient_direction=’vertical’ src=” background_position=’top left’ background_repeat=’no-repeat’ animation=” mobile_breaking=” mobile_display=” av_uid=’av-13aauo2′]
[av_image src=’https://www.agendapoetry.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Will-Stone.jpg’ attachment=’3509′ attachment_size=’full’ align=’center’ styling=” hover=” link=” target=” caption=” font_size=” appearance=” overlay_opacity=’0.4′ overlay_color=’#000000′ overlay_text_color=’#ffffff’ copyright=” animation=’no-animation’ av_uid=’av-111qosy’ admin_preview_bg=”][/av_image]

[av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=” av-medium-font-size=” av-small-font-size=” av-mini-font-size=” av_uid=’av-k617iw29′ admin_preview_bg=”]

Will Stone

[/av_textblock]
[/av_one_fourth]

[av_one_fourth min_height=” vertical_alignment=” space=” custom_margin=” margin=’0px’ row_boxshadow=” row_boxshadow_color=” row_boxshadow_width=’10’ link=” linktarget=” link_hover=” padding=’0px’ highlight=” highlight_size=” border=” border_color=” radius=’0px’ column_boxshadow=” column_boxshadow_color=” column_boxshadow_width=’10’ background=’bg_color’ background_color=” background_gradient_color1=” background_gradient_color2=” background_gradient_direction=’vertical’ src=” background_position=’top left’ background_repeat=’no-repeat’ animation=” mobile_breaking=” mobile_display=” av_uid=’av-10c7eo2′]
[av_image src=’https://www.agendapoetry.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/David-Cooke.jpg’ attachment=’3505′ attachment_size=’full’ align=’center’ styling=” hover=” link=” target=” caption=” font_size=” appearance=” overlay_opacity=’0.4′ overlay_color=’#000000′ overlay_text_color=’#ffffff’ copyright=” animation=’no-animation’ av_uid=’av-xd0yci’ admin_preview_bg=”][/av_image]

[av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=” av-medium-font-size=” av-small-font-size=” av-mini-font-size=” av_uid=’av-k617h7v8′ admin_preview_bg=”]

David Cooke

[/av_textblock]
[/av_one_fourth]

[av_one_full first min_height=” vertical_alignment=” space=” custom_margin=” margin=’0px’ row_boxshadow=” row_boxshadow_color=” row_boxshadow_width=’10’ link=” linktarget=” link_hover=” padding=’0px’ highlight=” highlight_size=” border=” border_color=” radius=’0px’ column_boxshadow=” column_boxshadow_color=” column_boxshadow_width=’10’ background=’bg_color’ background_color=” background_gradient_color1=” background_gradient_color2=” background_gradient_direction=’vertical’ src=” background_position=’top left’ background_repeat=’no-repeat’ animation=” mobile_breaking=” mobile_display=” av_uid=’av-vm3v4y’]
[av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=” av-medium-font-size=” av-small-font-size=” av-mini-font-size=” av_uid=’av-k5sh22nx’ admin_preview_bg=”]
PATRICIA McCARTHY is the editor of Agenda poetry journal. Her poems have been widely anthologised. A collection, Survival, was published in the US in 1978, and A Second Skin came out from Peterloo poets in 1985. Her new collection is Rodin’s Shadow (below). Around the Mulberry Bush: New and elected Poems will be published by Waterloo Press in 2013. A pamphlet, Trodden Before, will also appear in 2013. Rodin’s Shadow (Clutag Press/Agenda Editions) is written in the voices of Rodin‘s mistresses, Camille Claudel and Gwen John, of his long-standing semi-literate companion Rose Beuret, and of Debussy.

TIMOTHY ADÈS is a rhyming translator-poet, from French, Spanish, and German, widely published. His books to date are: How to be a Grandfather by Victor Hugo (Complete Edition, 2012), and 33 Sonnets of the Resistance and The Madness of Amadis by Jean Cassou. Amadis is published by Agenda Editions. Due next year, another Resistance poet, Robert Desnos. Timothy has won various awards. Other favourites are Brecht, Alfonso Reyes, Angelos Sikelianós and Louise Labé. Work from older poets (out of copyright) is on the Brindin website. Timothy also writes lipograms (texts written under constraint, e.g. avoiding letter e).

DAVID COOKE won a Gregory Award in 1977 and published Brueghel’s Dancers in 1984, but then stopped writing for twenty years. A retrospective collection, In the Distance, was published last year by Night Publishing. A new collection, Work Horses, has appeared from Ward Wood Publishing. He has published poetry, translations and reviews in many journals such as Ambit, Agenda, The Bow Wow Shop, Critical Quarterly, The London Magazine, Magma, The North, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry London, Poetry Salzburg Review, The Reader,The Shop and Stand and The Use of English.

WILL STONE, born 1966, is a poet and literary translator who divides his time between England and Belgium. His first poetry collection Glaciation (Salt, 2007) won the international Glen Dimplex award for poetry in 2008. A second collection Drawing in Ash was published by Salt in May 2011 and won the 3-am Magazine poetry book of the year award, 2011. His published translations include To The Silenced – selected poems of Georg Trakl (Arc Publications, 2005) and Journeys, a collection of Stefan Zweig‘s European travel essays (Hesperus Press, 2010). His translations of long-neglected Belgian francophone poets Emile Verhaeren and Georges Rodenbach are now due, and a first English translation of Rilke in Paris by Maurice Betz has appeared from Hesperus Press.
[/av_textblock]
[/av_one_full]

[av_one_third first min_height=” vertical_alignment=” space=” custom_margin=” margin=’0px’ row_boxshadow=” row_boxshadow_color=” row_boxshadow_width=’10’ link=” linktarget=” link_hover=” padding=’0px’ highlight=” highlight_size=” border=” border_color=” radius=’0px’ column_boxshadow=” column_boxshadow_color=” column_boxshadow_width=’10’ background=’bg_color’ background_color=” background_gradient_color1=” background_gradient_color2=” background_gradient_direction=’vertical’ src=” background_position=’top left’ background_repeat=’no-repeat’ animation=” mobile_breaking=” mobile_display=” av_uid=’av-ul4ugy’]
[av_image src=’https://www.agendapoetry.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Celtic-.jpg’ attachment=’3502′ attachment_size=’full’ align=’center’ styling=” hover=” link=” target=” caption=” font_size=” appearance=” overlay_opacity=’0.4′ overlay_color=’#000000′ overlay_text_color=’#ffffff’ copyright=” animation=’no-animation’ av_uid=’av-sqj30y’ admin_preview_bg=”][/av_image]
[/av_one_third]

[av_one_third min_height=” vertical_alignment=” space=” custom_margin=” margin=’0px’ row_boxshadow=” row_boxshadow_color=” row_boxshadow_width=’10’ link=” linktarget=” link_hover=” padding=’0px’ highlight=” highlight_size=” border=” border_color=” radius=’0px’ column_boxshadow=” column_boxshadow_color=” column_boxshadow_width=’10’ background=’bg_color’ background_color=” background_gradient_color1=” background_gradient_color2=” background_gradient_direction=’vertical’ src=” background_position=’top left’ background_repeat=’no-repeat’ animation=” mobile_breaking=” mobile_display=” av_uid=’av-qrzfk2′]
[av_image src=’https://www.agendapoetry.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Stone-Drawing-In-Ash.jpg’ attachment=’3500′ attachment_size=’full’ align=’center’ styling=” hover=” link=” target=” caption=” font_size=” appearance=” overlay_opacity=’0.4′ overlay_color=’#000000′ overlay_text_color=’#ffffff’ copyright=” animation=’no-animation’ av_uid=’av-pra242′ admin_preview_bg=”][/av_image]
[/av_one_third]

[av_one_third min_height=” vertical_alignment=” space=” custom_margin=” margin=’0px’ row_boxshadow=” row_boxshadow_color=” row_boxshadow_width=’10’ link=” linktarget=” link_hover=” padding=’0px’ highlight=” highlight_size=” border=” border_color=” radius=’0px’ column_boxshadow=” column_boxshadow_color=” column_boxshadow_width=’10’ background=’bg_color’ background_color=” background_gradient_color1=” background_gradient_color2=” background_gradient_direction=’vertical’ src=” background_position=’top left’ background_repeat=’no-repeat’ animation=” mobile_breaking=” mobile_display=” av_uid=’av-nppiw2′]
[av_image src=’https://www.agendapoetry.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Madnessjpg.jpg’ attachment=’3504′ attachment_size=’full’ align=’center’ styling=” hover=” link=” target=” caption=” font_size=” appearance=” overlay_opacity=’0.4′ overlay_color=’#000000′ overlay_text_color=’#ffffff’ copyright=” animation=’no-animation’ av_uid=’av-lwg79u’ admin_preview_bg=”][/av_image]
[/av_one_third]

[av_one_third first min_height=” vertical_alignment=” space=” custom_margin=” margin=’0px’ row_boxshadow=” row_boxshadow_color=” row_boxshadow_width=’10’ link=” linktarget=” link_hover=” padding=’0px’ highlight=” highlight_size=” border=” border_color=” radius=’0px’ column_boxshadow=” column_boxshadow_color=” column_boxshadow_width=’10’ background=’bg_color’ background_color=” background_gradient_color1=” background_gradient_color2=” background_gradient_direction=’vertical’ src=” background_position=’top left’ background_repeat=’no-repeat’ animation=” mobile_breaking=” mobile_display=” av_uid=’av-khvn5e’]
[av_image src=’https://www.agendapoetry.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Cooke-Work-Horses.jpg’ attachment=’3507′ attachment_size=’full’ align=’center’ styling=” hover=” link=” target=” caption=” font_size=” appearance=” overlay_opacity=’0.4′ overlay_color=’#000000′ overlay_text_color=’#ffffff’ copyright=” animation=’no-animation’ av_uid=’av-ikgaaq’ admin_preview_bg=”][/av_image]
[/av_one_third]

[av_one_third min_height=” vertical_alignment=” space=” custom_margin=” margin=’0px’ row_boxshadow=” row_boxshadow_color=” row_boxshadow_width=’10’ link=” linktarget=” link_hover=” padding=’0px’ highlight=” highlight_size=” border=” border_color=” radius=’0px’ column_boxshadow=” column_boxshadow_color=” column_boxshadow_width=’10’ background=’bg_color’ background_color=” background_gradient_color1=” background_gradient_color2=” background_gradient_direction=’vertical’ src=” background_position=’top left’ background_repeat=’no-repeat’ animation=” mobile_breaking=” mobile_display=” av_uid=’av-e6h4n6′]
[av_image src=’https://www.agendapoetry.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Second-Skin-Front-Cover-001-191×300.jpg’ attachment=’3112′ attachment_size=’medium’ align=’center’ styling=” hover=” link=” target=” caption=” font_size=” appearance=” overlay_opacity=’0.4′ overlay_color=’#000000′ overlay_text_color=’#ffffff’ copyright=” animation=’no-animation’ av_uid=’av-cz7rtu’ admin_preview_bg=”][/av_image]
[/av_one_third]

[av_one_third min_height=” vertical_alignment=” space=” custom_margin=” margin=’0px’ row_boxshadow=” row_boxshadow_color=” row_boxshadow_width=’10’ link=” linktarget=” link_hover=” padding=’0px’ highlight=” highlight_size=” border=” border_color=” radius=’0px’ column_boxshadow=” column_boxshadow_color=” column_boxshadow_width=’10’ background=’bg_color’ background_color=” background_gradient_color1=” background_gradient_color2=” background_gradient_direction=’vertical’ src=” background_position=’top left’ background_repeat=’no-repeat’ animation=” mobile_breaking=” mobile_display=” av_uid=’av-gsijn6′]
[av_image src=’https://www.agendapoetry.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Rodin.jpg’ attachment=’3503′ attachment_size=’full’ align=’center’ styling=” hover=” link=” target=” caption=” font_size=” appearance=” overlay_opacity=’0.4′ overlay_color=’#000000′ overlay_text_color=’#ffffff’ copyright=” animation=’no-animation’ av_uid=’av-g3bwr6′ admin_preview_bg=”][/av_image]
[/av_one_third]

[av_one_third min_height=” vertical_alignment=” space=” custom_margin=” margin=’0px’ row_boxshadow=” row_boxshadow_color=” row_boxshadow_width=’10’ link=” linktarget=” link_hover=” padding=’0px’ highlight=” highlight_size=” border=” border_color=” radius=’0px’ column_boxshadow=” column_boxshadow_color=” column_boxshadow_width=’10’ background=’bg_color’ background_color=” background_gradient_color1=” background_gradient_color2=” background_gradient_direction=’vertical’ src=” background_position=’top left’ background_repeat=’no-repeat’ animation=” mobile_breaking=” mobile_display=” av_uid=’av-35ld2q’]
[av_hr class=’default’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-thin’ custom_width=’50px’ custom_border_color=” custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’yes’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ av-desktop-hide=” av-medium-hide=” av-small-hide=” av-mini-hide=” av_uid=’av-4vbl2q’]
[/av_one_third]

[av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=” av-medium-font-size=” av-small-font-size=” av-mini-font-size=” av_uid=’av-9349gy’ admin_preview_bg=”]

Photo & design: Sue Fallon

[/av_textblock]
[/av_one_full]

Agenda/St Leonards Mayfield Poetry Festival
October 9th to 14th 2012 at The Old Palace, Mayfield

Prize-winning poets from England, Wales, Ireland, Scotland, India.

Art exhibitions: Brian Whelan, Carolyn Trant, Johnny Marsh

Tuesday 9 Gillian Clarke reading 2.30 workshop midday

Thursday 11 Split Tongues: Three Irish (Joseph Horgan), Scots (W.S.Milne) and Indian (Sudeep Sen) poets read their poetry and discuss how it is to have two or more native languages 7.30pm

Friday 12 Mimi Khalvati reading 2.30 Workshop 6.30pm

Hearteners: Gill McEvoy, Abegail Morley and Sue Roe read their moving poems 8 to 9pm

Saturday 13 Four Shades of Translation: Timothy Adès, Susan Wicks, Josephine Balmer, Sian Thomas giving readings and discussing the ‘impossible art of translation’. Poets discussed include Catullus, Ovid, Resistance French sonnets, modern French poetry. 2-3.15pm

Poetry workshop: Fragments with Josephine Balmer 4-4.45pm

Getting Yourself into Print with editors Simon Jenner, John F. Deane, Sudeep Sen and Patricia McCarthy 6-7pm

Storm Houses: Tim Liardet and Peter Carpenter read their haunting poetry 8-9pm

Sunday 14 John F. Deane, revered Irish poet, founder of Poetry Ireland and the Dedalus Press, a Chevalier d’Honneur reads his poems in the ancient Chapel 2.30pm

Launch of Rodin’s Shadow by Patricia McCarthy (Patsy Cornish):

a dramatic reading of five voices 4pm

Accompanying art work: Johnny Marsh

Young Agenda Broadsheet Poets reading their poems 5.30pm

Grand finale: launch of ‘Celtic Mists’ issue of Agenda and drinks 7pm.

Refreshments and wine available at all events.

Stroller ticket for all events (except workshops) £20 Other events £5 each; Gillian Clarke’s and Mimi Khalvati’s workshops £20 with lunch/supper; Jo Balmer’s workshop £10

Spaces only for 10-14 people in the workshops. Special prices on day/evening events.

Contacts: Tel 01435 874600 for tickets; 01435 873703 for further details or email [email protected] for further information, tickets and times.

At the Festival, Patricia McCarthy will launch
Rodin’s Shadow(Clutag Press/Agenda Editions) written

in the voices of Rodin’s mistresses, Camille Claudel, Gwen John, of Rose Beuret, his long-standing semi-literate companion, and of Debussy.

‘This collection is truly moving. The poems are energetic, exciting, demanding and rewarding. Patricia McCarthy is doing something unique here, using persona and art history to great effect. There is an energy to the language, and a half-wild experimentation that is uplifting and yet controlled. The shifting between rhyme and free verse is also exact and exacting. There is a fine labour manifest throughout and I find the whole a rich achievement’,
John Deane, poet and founder of Poetry Ireland
Copies will be available to purchase at the Festival, and also at the Agenda online bookshop
In the Festival event Split Tongues, Joseph Horgan will be reading from his new collection, An Unscheduled Life (Agenda Editions 2012) about the London-Irish: what it means to be both an exile and an immigrant, accompanied by
artwork by Brian Whelan which will also be exhibited.

‘…In the contemporary reality we need poets who will sing homelessness and rootlessness’.
Paula Meehan

‘Brian – keep the brush in your hand!’
Seamus Heaney

‘This is vey strong art; not for aesthetic wimps’.
Sister Wendy Beckett, art historian and critic

Copies available at the Festival and also at the Agenda online bookshop.

Split Tongues will also feature Omar Sabbagh, the British/Lebanese poet, who will also be reading from his latest collection, Waxed Mahogany (Agenda Editions, 2012).

Omar Sabbagh demonstrates in this new collection how he has grown into his Arabic/English voice, and found his place in its archetypal, instinctive reaches. His ear is finely tuned in these deft, incisive poems that shift between home and exile, love and death. Each poem flows all of a piece, carrying its own alchemy, eroticism, and startling imagery, along with feeling thoughts, and thinking feelings. Clever conceits, word play and large scope combine in this haunting, metaphysical, excitingly original collection.

Copies available at the Festival and also at the Agenda online bookshop

Put these Festival dates in your diary if you are within striking distance of Mayfield, East Sussex, an ancient hill-top village with beautiful views and an eleventh century chapel, the former banqueting hall of the Archbishops of Canterbury.
Stay in a local inn such as the historic Middle House in the High Street, or at B&Bs in the locality or in Tunbridge Wells which is only 10 minutes away. Have lunch/a drink in the charming pub, The Rose & Crown, Fletching Street or in the Carpenters Arms. Sample home-cooked food and coffee in Jason’s Coffee House, High Street. Visit The Dark Horse Art Gallery, also in the High Street.
[/av_textblock]
[/av_one_full]

[av_one_third min_height=” vertical_alignment=” space=” custom_margin=” margin=’0px’ row_boxshadow=” row_boxshadow_color=” row_boxshadow_width=’10’ link=” linktarget=” link_hover=” padding=’0px’ highlight=” highlight_size=” border=” border_color=” radius=’0px’ column_boxshadow=” column_boxshadow_color=” column_boxshadow_width=’10’ background=’bg_color’ background_color=” background_gradient_color1=” background_gradient_color2=” background_gradient_direction=’vertical’ src=” background_position=’top left’ background_repeat=’no-repeat’ animation=” mobile_breaking=” mobile_display=” av_uid=’av-35ld2q’]
[av_hr class=’default’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-thin’ custom_width=’50px’ custom_border_color=” custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’yes’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ av-desktop-hide=” av-medium-hide=” av-small-hide=” av-mini-hide=” av_uid=’av-4vbl2q’]
[/av_one_third]

Patricia McCarthy read from her forthcoming collection

(Oct 1st 2012) ‘Rodin’s Shadow‘

in front of Rodin‘s ‘The Kiss‘ at Turner Contemporary, Margate.

[/av_textblock]
[/av_one_full]

[av_one_full first min_height=” vertical_alignment=” space=” custom_margin=” margin=’0px’ row_boxshadow=” row_boxshadow_color=” row_boxshadow_width=’10’ link=” linktarget=” link_hover=” padding=’0px’ highlight=” highlight_size=” border=” border_color=” radius=’0px’ column_boxshadow=” column_boxshadow_color=” column_boxshadow_width=’10’ background=’bg_color’ background_color=” background_gradient_color1=” background_gradient_color2=” background_gradient_direction=’vertical’ src=” background_position=’top left’ background_repeat=’no-repeat’ animation=” mobile_breaking=” mobile_display=” av_uid=’av-26u2s2′]
[av_image src=’https://www.agendapoetry.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/RodinShadowflyerAd.jpg’ attachment=’3184′ attachment_size=’full’ align=’center’ styling=” hover=” link=” target=” caption=” font_size=” appearance=” overlay_opacity=’0.4′ overlay_color=’#000000′ overlay_text_color=’#ffffff’ copyright=” animation=’no-animation’ av_uid=’av-k5sgkx3q’ admin_preview_bg=”][/av_image]
[/av_one_full]

[av_one_third min_height=” vertical_alignment=” space=” custom_margin=” margin=’0px’ row_boxshadow=” row_boxshadow_color=” row_boxshadow_width=’10’ link=” linktarget=” link_hover=” padding=’0px’ highlight=” highlight_size=” border=” border_color=” radius=’0px’ column_boxshadow=” column_boxshadow_color=” column_boxshadow_width=’10’ background=’bg_color’ background_color=” background_gradient_color1=” background_gradient_color2=” background_gradient_direction=’vertical’ src=” background_position=’top left’ background_repeat=’no-repeat’ animation=” mobile_breaking=” mobile_display=” av_uid=’av-35ld2q’]
[av_hr class=’default’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-thin’ custom_width=’50px’ custom_border_color=” custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’yes’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ av-desktop-hide=” av-medium-hide=” av-small-hide=” av-mini-hide=” av_uid=’av-4vbl2q’]
[/av_one_third]

[av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=” av-medium-font-size=” av-small-font-size=” av-mini-font-size=” av_uid=’av-k5sghzbd’ admin_preview_bg=”]

Bicentenary Robert Browning b. 7th May 1812

Two Essays

Michael Goldman:

The Humour in Browning’s Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister: a layman’s view

Tony Roberts:

Living with Browning: an appreciation of the poet in his bicentennial year

[/av_textblock]

[av_one_third min_height=” vertical_alignment=” space=” custom_margin=” margin=’0px’ row_boxshadow=” row_boxshadow_color=” row_boxshadow_width=’10’ link=” linktarget=” link_hover=” padding=’0px’ highlight=” highlight_size=” border=” border_color=” radius=’0px’ column_boxshadow=” column_boxshadow_color=” column_boxshadow_width=’10’ background=’bg_color’ background_color=” background_gradient_color1=” background_gradient_color2=” background_gradient_direction=’vertical’ src=” background_position=’top left’ background_repeat=’no-repeat’ animation=” mobile_breaking=” mobile_display=” av_uid=’av-35ld2q’]
[av_hr class=’default’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-thin’ custom_width=’50px’ custom_border_color=” custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’yes’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ av-desktop-hide=” av-medium-hide=” av-small-hide=” av-mini-hide=” av_uid=’av-4vbl2q’]
[/av_one_third]

Poetry in the House

9 Feb 2012

Thanks to the following Agenda Poets

Timothy Adès,Clare Best, Gill McEvoy,
Christine McNeill, Andrew McNeillie,Sue Roe, James Simpson

and all who braved the freezing weather and made it such a

successful evening

Lauderdale House photographs courtesy Sue Fallon

[/av_textblock]
[/av_one_full]

[av_one_third first min_height=” vertical_alignment=” space=” custom_margin=” margin=’0px’ row_boxshadow=” row_boxshadow_color=” row_boxshadow_width=’10’ link=” linktarget=” link_hover=” padding=’0px’ highlight=” highlight_size=” border=” border_color=” radius=’0px’ column_boxshadow=” column_boxshadow_color=” column_boxshadow_width=’10’ background=’bg_color’ background_color=” background_gradient_color1=” background_gradient_color2=” background_gradient_direction=’vertical’ src=” background_position=’top left’ background_repeat=’no-repeat’ animation=” mobile_breaking=” mobile_display=” av_uid=’av-1ld34vm’]
[av_image src=’https://www.agendapoetry.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/P-MCarthy-Introduction-Lauderdale-House-Feb-2012-Photograph-Sue-Fallon-1030×849.jpg’ attachment=’3414′ attachment_size=’large’ align=’center’ styling=” hover=” link=” target=” caption=” font_size=” appearance=” overlay_opacity=’0.4′ overlay_color=’#000000′ overlay_text_color=’#ffffff’ copyright=” animation=’no-animation’ av_uid=’av-k5sfzoy2′ admin_preview_bg=”][/av_image]

[av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=” av-medium-font-size=” av-small-font-size=” av-mini-font-size=” av_uid=’av-k5sgcpmf’ admin_preview_bg=”]

Introduction by Patricia McCarthy Editor of Agenda

[/av_textblock]
[/av_one_third]

[av_one_third min_height=” vertical_alignment=” space=” custom_margin=” margin=’0px’ row_boxshadow=” row_boxshadow_color=” row_boxshadow_width=’10’ link=” linktarget=” link_hover=” padding=’0px’ highlight=” highlight_size=” border=” border_color=” radius=’0px’ column_boxshadow=” column_boxshadow_color=” column_boxshadow_width=’10’ background=’bg_color’ background_color=” background_gradient_color1=” background_gradient_color2=” background_gradient_direction=’vertical’ src=” background_position=’top left’ background_repeat=’no-repeat’ animation=” mobile_breaking=” mobile_display=” av_uid=’av-1jgqcwy’]
[av_image src=’https://www.agendapoetry.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Clare-Best-reading-at-Lauderdale-House-Feb-2012-Photograph-Sue-Fallon-1030×687.jpg’ attachment=’3412′ attachment_size=’large’ align=’center’ styling=” hover=” link=” target=” caption=” font_size=” appearance=” overlay_opacity=’0.4′ overlay_color=’#000000′ overlay_text_color=’#ffffff’ copyright=” animation=’no-animation’ av_uid=’av-k5sg0bfp’ admin_preview_bg=”][/av_image]

[av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=” av-medium-font-size=” av-small-font-size=” av-mini-font-size=” av_uid=’av-k5sgc054′ admin_preview_bg=”]

Clare Best

[/av_textblock]
[/av_one_third]

[av_one_third min_height=” vertical_alignment=” space=” custom_margin=” margin=’0px’ row_boxshadow=” row_boxshadow_color=” row_boxshadow_width=’10’ link=” linktarget=” link_hover=” padding=’0px’ highlight=” highlight_size=” border=” border_color=” radius=’0px’ column_boxshadow=” column_boxshadow_color=” column_boxshadow_width=’10’ background=’bg_color’ background_color=” background_gradient_color1=” background_gradient_color2=” background_gradient_direction=’vertical’ src=” background_position=’top left’ background_repeat=’no-repeat’ animation=” mobile_breaking=” mobile_display=” av_uid=’av-1ihgur6′]
[av_image src=’https://www.agendapoetry.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/James-Simpson-Lauderdale-House-Feb-2012-Photograph-Sue-Fallon-1030×687.jpg’ attachment=’3413′ attachment_size=’large’ align=’center’ styling=” hover=” link=” target=” caption=” font_size=” appearance=” overlay_opacity=’0.4′ overlay_color=’#000000′ overlay_text_color=’#ffffff’ copyright=” animation=’no-animation’ av_uid=’av-k5sg0pba’ admin_preview_bg=”][/av_image]

[av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=” av-medium-font-size=” av-small-font-size=” av-mini-font-size=” av_uid=’av-k5sgbood’ admin_preview_bg=”]

James Simpson

[/av_textblock]
[/av_one_third]

[av_one_third first min_height=” vertical_alignment=” space=” custom_margin=” margin=’0px’ row_boxshadow=” row_boxshadow_color=” row_boxshadow_width=’10’ link=” linktarget=” link_hover=” padding=’0px’ highlight=” highlight_size=” border=” border_color=” radius=’0px’ column_boxshadow=” column_boxshadow_color=” column_boxshadow_width=’10’ background=’bg_color’ background_color=” background_gradient_color1=” background_gradient_color2=” background_gradient_direction=’vertical’ src=” background_position=’top left’ background_repeat=’no-repeat’ animation=” mobile_breaking=” mobile_display=” av_uid=’av-1gphede’]
[av_image src=’https://www.agendapoetry.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Timothy-Ades-Reading-Lauderdale-House-Feb-2012-Photograph-Sue-Fallon-1030×511.jpg’ attachment=’3410′ attachment_size=’large’ align=’center’ styling=” hover=” link=” target=” caption=” font_size=” appearance=” overlay_opacity=’0.4′ overlay_color=’#000000′ overlay_text_color=’#ffffff’ copyright=” animation=’no-animation’ av_uid=’av-k5sfzz61′ admin_preview_bg=”][/av_image]

[av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=” av-medium-font-size=” av-small-font-size=” av-mini-font-size=” av_uid=’av-k5sg921r’ admin_preview_bg=”]

Timothy Adès

[/av_textblock]
[/av_one_third]

[av_one_third min_height=” vertical_alignment=” space=” custom_margin=” margin=’0px’ row_boxshadow=” row_boxshadow_color=” row_boxshadow_width=’10’ link=” linktarget=” link_hover=” padding=’0px’ highlight=” highlight_size=” border=” border_color=” radius=’0px’ column_boxshadow=” column_boxshadow_color=” column_boxshadow_width=’10’ background=’bg_color’ background_color=” background_gradient_color1=” background_gradient_color2=” background_gradient_direction=’vertical’ src=” background_position=’top left’ background_repeat=’no-repeat’ animation=” mobile_breaking=” mobile_display=” av_uid=’av-1efyiia’]
[av_image src=’https://www.agendapoetry.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Anita-Money-Lauderdale-House-Feb-2012-Photograph-Sue-Fallon-859×1030.jpg’ attachment=’3411′ attachment_size=’large’ align=’center’ styling=” hover=” link=” target=” caption=” font_size=” appearance=” overlay_opacity=’0.4′ overlay_color=’#000000′ overlay_text_color=’#ffffff’ copyright=” animation=’no-animation’ av_uid=’av-k5sg1g61′ admin_preview_bg=”][/av_image]

[av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=” av-medium-font-size=” av-small-font-size=” av-mini-font-size=” av_uid=’av-k5sgb9su’ admin_preview_bg=”]

Anita Money

[/av_textblock]
[/av_one_third]

[av_one_third min_height=” vertical_alignment=” space=” custom_margin=” margin=’0px’ row_boxshadow=” row_boxshadow_color=” row_boxshadow_width=’10’ link=” linktarget=” link_hover=” padding=’0px’ highlight=” highlight_size=” border=” border_color=” radius=’0px’ column_boxshadow=” column_boxshadow_color=” column_boxshadow_width=’10’ background=’bg_color’ background_color=” background_gradient_color1=” background_gradient_color2=” background_gradient_direction=’vertical’ src=” background_position=’top left’ background_repeat=’no-repeat’ animation=” mobile_breaking=” mobile_display=” av_uid=’av-1cy0n3m’]
[av_image src=’https://www.agendapoetry.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Tamsin-Andrews-James-Fish-With-P-McCarthy-Clare-Best-Photograph-Sue-Fallon-1030×687.jpg’ attachment=’3409′ attachment_size=’large’ align=’center’ styling=” hover=” link=” target=” caption=” font_size=” appearance=” overlay_opacity=’0.4′ overlay_color=’#000000′ overlay_text_color=’#ffffff’ copyright=” animation=’no-animation’ av_uid=’av-k5sg10oz’ admin_preview_bg=”][/av_image]

[av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=” av-medium-font-size=” av-small-font-size=” av-mini-font-size=” av_uid=’av-k5sgaygm’ admin_preview_bg=”]

Patricia McCarthy, James Fish, Tamsin Andrews and Clare Best

[/av_textblock]
[/av_one_third]

[av_one_third min_height=” vertical_alignment=” space=” custom_margin=” margin=’0px’ row_boxshadow=” row_boxshadow_color=” row_boxshadow_width=’10’ link=” linktarget=” link_hover=” padding=’0px’ highlight=” highlight_size=” border=” border_color=” radius=’0px’ column_boxshadow=” column_boxshadow_color=” column_boxshadow_width=’10’ background=’bg_color’ background_color=” background_gradient_color1=” background_gradient_color2=” background_gradient_direction=’vertical’ src=” background_position=’top left’ background_repeat=’no-repeat’ animation=” mobile_breaking=” mobile_display=” av_uid=’av-35ld2q’]
[av_hr class=’default’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-thin’ custom_width=’50px’ custom_border_color=” custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’yes’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ av-desktop-hide=” av-medium-hide=” av-small-hide=” av-mini-hide=” av_uid=’av-4vbl2q’]
[/av_one_third]

November 15, 2011

World Poetry Portfolio

Patricia McCarthy, editor of Agenda, is featured (with twelve poems) in the online

World Poetry Portfolio No 50, edited by Sudeep Sen

http://www.molossus.co/poetry/world-poetry-portfolio-50-patricia-mccarthy/

[/av_textblock]
[/av_one_full]

[av_one_third min_height=” vertical_alignment=” space=” custom_margin=” margin=’0px’ row_boxshadow=” row_boxshadow_color=” row_boxshadow_width=’10’ link=” linktarget=” link_hover=” padding=’0px’ highlight=” highlight_size=” border=” border_color=” radius=’0px’ column_boxshadow=” column_boxshadow_color=” column_boxshadow_width=’10’ background=’bg_color’ background_color=” background_gradient_color1=” background_gradient_color2=” background_gradient_direction=’vertical’ src=” background_position=’top left’ background_repeat=’no-repeat’ animation=” mobile_breaking=” mobile_display=” av_uid=’av-16rxygi’]
[av_image src=’https://www.agendapoetry.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/P-McCarthy-Lauderdale-House-Feb-2012-Photograph-Sue-Fallon-1001×1030.jpg’ attachment=’3408′ attachment_size=’large’ align=’center’ styling=” hover=” link=” target=” caption=” font_size=” appearance=” overlay_opacity=’0.4′ overlay_color=’#000000′ overlay_text_color=’#ffffff’ copyright=” animation=’no-animation’ av_uid=’av-k5sfx208′ admin_preview_bg=”][/av_image]
[/av_one_third]

[av_one_third min_height=” vertical_alignment=” space=” custom_margin=” margin=’0px’ row_boxshadow=” row_boxshadow_color=” row_boxshadow_width=’10’ link=” linktarget=” link_hover=” padding=’0px’ highlight=” highlight_size=” border=” border_color=” radius=’0px’ column_boxshadow=” column_boxshadow_color=” column_boxshadow_width=’10’ background=’bg_color’ background_color=” background_gradient_color1=” background_gradient_color2=” background_gradient_direction=’vertical’ src=” background_position=’top left’ background_repeat=’no-repeat’ animation=” mobile_breaking=” mobile_display=” av_uid=’av-35ld2q’]
[av_hr class=’default’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-thin’ custom_width=’50px’ custom_border_color=” custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’yes’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ av-desktop-hide=” av-medium-hide=” av-small-hide=” av-mini-hide=” av_uid=’av-4vbl2q’]
[/av_one_third]

Agenda Poetry Competition Results

First Prize: Kim Lasky, ‘The Bed that is a Tree’

Second Prize: Sharon Black, ‘Palomas’

Third Prize: Claudia Jessop, ‘Marionette Dream’

Runners-up:

Abegail Morley, ‘Wasps’

Judith Taylor, ‘Afterlife’

Will Johnson, ‘a devotion’

Anna Wigley, ‘Dear John’

Jane Lovell, ‘The Prayer of St. Simon’

[/av_textblock]
[/av_one_full]

[av_one_third min_height=” vertical_alignment=” space=” custom_margin=” margin=’0px’ row_boxshadow=” row_boxshadow_color=” row_boxshadow_width=’10’ link=” linktarget=” link_hover=” padding=’0px’ highlight=” highlight_size=” border=” border_color=” radius=’0px’ column_boxshadow=” column_boxshadow_color=” column_boxshadow_width=’10’ background=’bg_color’ background_color=” background_gradient_color1=” background_gradient_color2=” background_gradient_direction=’vertical’ src=” background_position=’top left’ background_repeat=’no-repeat’ animation=” mobile_breaking=” mobile_display=” av_uid=’av-35ld2q’]
[av_hr class=’default’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-thin’ custom_width=’50px’ custom_border_color=” custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’yes’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ av-desktop-hide=” av-medium-hide=” av-small-hide=” av-mini-hide=” av_uid=’av-4vbl2q’]
[/av_one_third]

[av_one_third min_height=” vertical_alignment=” space=” custom_margin=” margin=’0px’ row_boxshadow=” row_boxshadow_color=” row_boxshadow_width=’10’ link=” linktarget=” link_hover=” padding=’0px’ highlight=” highlight_size=” border=” border_color=” radius=’0px’ column_boxshadow=” column_boxshadow_color=” column_boxshadow_width=’10’ background=’bg_color’ background_color=” background_gradient_color1=” background_gradient_color2=” background_gradient_direction=’vertical’ src=” background_position=’top left’ background_repeat=’no-repeat’ animation=” mobile_breaking=” mobile_display=” av_uid=’av-zcsz1e’]
[av_image src=’https://www.agendapoetry.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/KeithJones.jpg’ attachment=’3394′ attachment_size=’full’ align=’center’ styling=” hover=” link=” target=” caption=” font_size=” appearance=” overlay_opacity=’0.4′ overlay_color=’#000000′ overlay_text_color=’#ffffff’ copyright=” animation=’no-animation’ av_uid=’av-k5sfpfkx’ admin_preview_bg=”][/av_image]
[/av_one_third]

Keith Jones, Iran, 1978 Photo: Gillian Jones

[/av_textblock]
[/av_one_full]

[av_one_full first min_height=” vertical_alignment=” space=” custom_margin=” margin=’0px’ row_boxshadow=” row_boxshadow_color=” row_boxshadow_width=’10’ link=” linktarget=” link_hover=” padding=’0px’ highlight=” highlight_size=” border=” border_color=” radius=’0px’ column_boxshadow=” column_boxshadow_color=” column_boxshadow_width=’10’ background=’bg_color’ background_color=” background_gradient_color1=” background_gradient_color2=” background_gradient_direction=’vertical’ src=” background_position=’top left’ background_repeat=’no-repeat’ animation=” mobile_breaking=” mobile_display=” av_uid=’av-uauh4y’]
[av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=” av-medium-font-size=” av-small-font-size=” av-mini-font-size=” av_uid=’av-k5sfnocl’ admin_preview_bg=”]
Keith Jones, whose collection, Merrimans, was published by Agenda Editions in 2001, was born in Gwaenysgor, North Wales, and studied at Aberystwyth University. After teaching English for two years in Birmingham, he escaped overseas to Turkey and Ethiopia. He joined the British Council in 1966 and was posted to Alexandria some months before the 6-day war. He worked for the British Council in Nigeria, London, Germany and the Middle East, taking retirement in 1993. Reflected in his poetry are his interests in the Tarot system and Welsh mythology, and his bizarre experiences in the course of his battle to live with Parkinsonism which he fought so bravely.

Agenda Editions hopes to publish more of his work posthumously, and he will be featured in the Welsh issue of Agenda (winter 2008)

.
[/av_textblock]
[/av_one_full]

…perhaps Queen Gaia’s begun some people

culling policy,

perhaps a possible world is passing through

hacking as she goes;

perhaps some swirling saucer took the slice

and now is busy with the DNA,

a small army of your clones even now

entering somewhere parallel universe

where Yeats, constantly summoning lexicographers,

is king of a misspelled world,

and you are his company of knights, come to applaud

the latest verses on Byzantium;

or perhaps just a road, a tree, a fire and reading the flames

a brother of the holy spirit

discourses on how god moved and left behind the swirl,

whrlpool, wheel, whirlwind, womb,

and from it falcon after falcon after jackal

after whatever Thoth deals from the deck.

(from ‘The Ace of Deaths’)

…come forward my dear,

put this blindfold on

in each hand a sword,

now cross them overhead

the moon’s on her back,

the wind’s inside the sea,

the hair rising on our necks.

(from ‘The Two of Deaths)

…it’s time to listen my love, my rival,

to listen rigid to the wailing mothers

they know grief like the swimmer water,

their voices scratch the diamond eye of god,

they are professionals

taking in pain and washing it clean –

whatever the death their breath

can sing afterworlds inside us,

or maps of them and the will to journey,

head down in the Egyptian wind.

(from ‘The Three of Deaths)

…and you recite a self-critique

to each of your judges, all 42 of them, drenched in gossip,

and perhaps

the boatman beckoning

the underground night journey of the sun,

the lake of fire, the faithful serpent in whose coils

the hero hides,

seclusion sweet seclusion like a sleepy sphinx

let me lie here safe from the demands of love,

the plots of rivals,

let’s play the diplomacy of death, rouge the dead lips,

lift the coffin lid, rephrase despatches,

recode the papyrus.

(from ‘The Four of Deaths’)

The above extracts are from Merrimans, Agenda Editions.

[/av_textblock]
[/av_one_full]

[av_one_third min_height=” vertical_alignment=” space=” custom_margin=” margin=’0px’ row_boxshadow=” row_boxshadow_color=” row_boxshadow_width=’10’ link=” linktarget=” link_hover=” padding=’0px’ highlight=” highlight_size=” border=” border_color=” radius=’0px’ column_boxshadow=” column_boxshadow_color=” column_boxshadow_width=’10’ background=’bg_color’ background_color=” background_gradient_color1=” background_gradient_color2=” background_gradient_direction=’vertical’ src=” background_position=’top left’ background_repeat=’no-repeat’ animation=” mobile_breaking=” mobile_display=” av_uid=’av-35ld2q’]
[av_hr class=’default’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-thin’ custom_width=’50px’ custom_border_color=” custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’yes’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ av-desktop-hide=” av-medium-hide=” av-small-hide=” av-mini-hide=” av_uid=’av-4vbl2q’]
[/av_one_third]

[av_one_third first min_height=” vertical_alignment=” space=” custom_margin=” margin=’0px’ row_boxshadow=” row_boxshadow_color=” row_boxshadow_width=’10’ link=” linktarget=” link_hover=” padding=’0px’ highlight=” highlight_size=” border=” border_color=” radius=’0px’ column_boxshadow=” column_boxshadow_color=” column_boxshadow_width=’10’ background=’bg_color’ background_color=” background_gradient_color1=” background_gradient_color2=” background_gradient_direction=’vertical’ src=” background_position=’top left’ background_repeat=’no-repeat’ animation=” mobile_breaking=” mobile_display=” av_uid=’av-r8d2eq’]
[av_image src=’https://www.agendapoetry.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/clip_image002.jpg’ attachment=’3399′ attachment_size=’full’ align=’center’ styling=” hover=” link=” target=” caption=” font_size=” appearance=” overlay_opacity=’0.4′ overlay_color=’#000000′ overlay_text_color=’#ffffff’ copyright=” animation=’no-animation’ av_uid=’av-k5sfhoaa’ admin_preview_bg=”][/av_image]
[/av_one_third]

[av_one_third min_height=” vertical_alignment=” space=” custom_margin=” margin=’0px’ row_boxshadow=” row_boxshadow_color=” row_boxshadow_width=’10’ link=” linktarget=” link_hover=” padding=’0px’ highlight=” highlight_size=” border=” border_color=” radius=’0px’ column_boxshadow=” column_boxshadow_color=” column_boxshadow_width=’10’ background=’bg_color’ background_color=” background_gradient_color1=” background_gradient_color2=” background_gradient_direction=’vertical’ src=” background_position=’top left’ background_repeat=’no-repeat’ animation=” mobile_breaking=” mobile_display=” av_uid=’av-pjikdu’]
[av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=” av-medium-font-size=” av-small-font-size=” av-mini-font-size=” av_uid=’av-k5sfiv9i’ admin_preview_bg=”]
Conor Fallon, sculptor and painter, 30 January 1939 – 3 October 2007

Conor Fallon’s ‘Pegasus’ was on the front cover of the above issue, 1996. His ‘Nun with Singing Bird’ was on the back cover of the same issue:
[/av_textblock]
[/av_one_third]

[av_one_third min_height=” vertical_alignment=” space=” custom_margin=” margin=’0px’ row_boxshadow=” row_boxshadow_color=” row_boxshadow_width=’10’ link=” linktarget=” link_hover=” padding=’0px’ highlight=” highlight_size=” border=” border_color=” radius=’0px’ column_boxshadow=” column_boxshadow_color=” column_boxshadow_width=’10’ background=’bg_color’ background_color=” background_gradient_color1=” background_gradient_color2=” background_gradient_direction=’vertical’ src=” background_position=’top left’ background_repeat=’no-repeat’ animation=” mobile_breaking=” mobile_display=” av_uid=’av-ngodn6′]
[av_image src=’https://www.agendapoetry.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/clip_image004.jpg’ attachment=’3400′ attachment_size=’full’ align=’center’ styling=” hover=” link=” target=” caption=” font_size=” appearance=” overlay_opacity=’0.4′ overlay_color=’#000000′ overlay_text_color=’#ffffff’ copyright=” animation=’no-animation’ av_uid=’av-k5sfhw7r’ admin_preview_bg=”][/av_image]
[/av_one_third]

[av_one_full first min_height=” vertical_alignment=” space=” custom_margin=” margin=’0px’ row_boxshadow=” row_boxshadow_color=” row_boxshadow_width=’10’ link=” linktarget=” link_hover=” padding=’0px’ highlight=” highlight_size=” border=” border_color=” radius=’0px’ column_boxshadow=” column_boxshadow_color=” column_boxshadow_width=’10’ background=’bg_color’ background_color=” background_gradient_color1=” background_gradient_color2=” background_gradient_direction=’vertical’ src=” background_position=’top left’ background_repeat=’no-repeat’ animation=” mobile_breaking=” mobile_display=” av_uid=’av-my5sqa’]
[av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=” av-medium-font-size=” av-small-font-size=” av-mini-font-size=” av_uid=’av-k5sfgfxv’ admin_preview_bg=”]
Conor Fallon, son of the poet Padraic Fallon (whose Collected Poems were published by Carcanet) offered a steel sculpture of his Pegasus for the front cover of the Irish issue of Agenda, Vol. 33 Nos. 3-4 in 1996, guest-edited by Patricia McCarthy, and his ‘Nun with the Singing Bird’ for the back cover.

He was one of the most important Irish sculptors of the last century, renowned for his steel birds, horses, hares and fish (all part of the Celtic tradition) which have a spare, sleek beauty and presence with their clean lines. He was influenced not only by Cubism which he considered ‘the development in the art of the 20th century’, by Brancusi and Picasso’s three-dimensional work, but also by the early Greek sculptures and the carved figures of Ancient Egypt. From Modernism, he looked to Naum Gabo (a resident of St. Ives, Cornwall where Conor and his artist wife Nancy lived for a while, before moving to Kinsale, Cork for some years and then to Ballinaclash, County Wicklow) who demonstrated the avoidance of mass in sculptural space.

Although he was initially known for fairly small sculptures when he remarked ‘I was unable to see how I could do public sculptures of birds without them being distortions’, he eventually became noted for his monumental steel sculptures, mainly commissioned for important public places such as Enniscorthy Bridge, County Wexford, University College, Cork, and in Dublin, St. Patrick’s hospital, the Bank of Ireland Centre, University College, and a landmark piece for Independent Newspapers. He was awarded the Oireachtas gold medal for sculpture in 1980, and devoted much time to his role as secretary of the Royal Hibernian Academy and board member of the National Gallery of Ireland.
[/av_textblock]
[/av_one_full]

[av_one_third min_height=” vertical_alignment=” space=” custom_margin=” margin=’0px’ row_boxshadow=” row_boxshadow_color=” row_boxshadow_width=’10’ link=” linktarget=” link_hover=” padding=’0px’ highlight=” highlight_size=” border=” border_color=” radius=’0px’ column_boxshadow=” column_boxshadow_color=” column_boxshadow_width=’10’ background=’bg_color’ background_color=” background_gradient_color1=” background_gradient_color2=” background_gradient_direction=’vertical’ src=” background_position=’top left’ background_repeat=’no-repeat’ animation=” mobile_breaking=” mobile_display=” av_uid=’av-1xhcv6′]
[av_image src=’https://www.agendapoetry.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/clip_image006.jpg’ attachment=’3396′ attachment_size=’full’ align=’center’ styling=” hover=” link=” target=” caption=” font_size=” appearance=” overlay_opacity=’0.4′ overlay_color=’#000000′ overlay_text_color=’#ffffff’ copyright=” animation=’no-animation’ av_uid=’av-k5sfe1qu’ admin_preview_bg=”][/av_image]
[/av_one_third]

‘The Hawk that Rules the Wood’ by Conor Fallon. Photograph: Padraic Fallon

[/av_textblock]
[/av_one_full]

[av_one_third min_height=” vertical_alignment=” space=” custom_margin=” margin=’0px’ row_boxshadow=” row_boxshadow_color=” row_boxshadow_width=’10’ link=” linktarget=” link_hover=” padding=’0px’ highlight=” highlight_size=” border=” border_color=” radius=’0px’ column_boxshadow=” column_boxshadow_color=” column_boxshadow_width=’10’ background=’bg_color’ background_color=” background_gradient_color1=” background_gradient_color2=” background_gradient_direction=’vertical’ src=” background_position=’top left’ background_repeat=’no-repeat’ animation=” mobile_breaking=” mobile_display=” av_uid=’av-35ld2q’]
[av_hr class=’default’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-thin’ custom_width=’50px’ custom_border_color=” custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’yes’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ av-desktop-hide=” av-medium-hide=” av-small-hide=” av-mini-hide=” av_uid=’av-4vbl2q’]
[/av_one_third]

On the occasion of the German Speaking Group

HE The Ambassador of Switzerland, Mr Alexis P. Lautenberg

requests the pleasure of your company

at a reception at the Residence

with Prof Rüdiger Görner, Chair of the German Department, Queen Mary College, University of London

who will speak on “Rilke with a Swiss flavour”

on Wednesday 14 November 2007 from 6.00pm until 8.00pm

Ambassador’s Residence
21 Bryanston Square
London W1H 2DR

Lounge Suit
RSVP by 10 November
to [email protected]

[/av_textblock]
[/av_one_full]

[av_one_full first min_height=” vertical_alignment=” space=” custom_margin=” margin=’0px’ row_boxshadow=” row_boxshadow_color=” row_boxshadow_width=’10’ link=” linktarget=” link_hover=” padding=’0px’ highlight=” highlight_size=” border=” border_color=” radius=’0px’ column_boxshadow=” column_boxshadow_color=” column_boxshadow_width=’10’ background=’bg_color’ background_color=” background_gradient_color1=” background_gradient_color2=” background_gradient_direction=’vertical’ src=” background_position=’top left’ background_repeat=’no-repeat’ animation=” mobile_breaking=” mobile_display=” av_uid=’av-cg2oqa’]
[av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=” av-medium-font-size=” av-small-font-size=” av-mini-font-size=” av_uid=’av-k5sfcm16′ admin_preview_bg=”]
The above event was kindly hosted by His Excellency, the Ambassador of Switzerland. Patricia McCarthy introduced Agenda and the special Rilke issue. Sam Milne spoke briefly about Michael Hamburger‘s reputation as an expert on Rilke, including his long association with Agenda. Professor Rudiger Gorner delivered his paper very eloquently in German, and Charlie Louth (grandson of C.H. Sisson) read his translation from the Rilke issue.
[/av_textblock]
[/av_one_full]

[av_one_third min_height=” vertical_alignment=” space=” custom_margin=” margin=’0px’ row_boxshadow=” row_boxshadow_color=” row_boxshadow_width=’10’ link=” linktarget=” link_hover=” padding=’0px’ highlight=” highlight_size=” border=” border_color=” radius=’0px’ column_boxshadow=” column_boxshadow_color=” column_boxshadow_width=’10’ background=’bg_color’ background_color=” background_gradient_color1=” background_gradient_color2=” background_gradient_direction=’vertical’ src=” background_position=’top left’ background_repeat=’no-repeat’ animation=” mobile_breaking=” mobile_display=” av_uid=’av-35ld2q’]
[av_hr class=’default’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-thin’ custom_width=’50px’ custom_border_color=” custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’yes’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ av-desktop-hide=” av-medium-hide=” av-small-hide=” av-mini-hide=” av_uid=’av-4vbl2q’]
[/av_one_third]

[av_one_full first min_height=” vertical_alignment=” space=” custom_margin=” margin=’0px’ row_boxshadow=” row_boxshadow_color=” row_boxshadow_width=’10’ link=” linktarget=” link_hover=” padding=’0px’ highlight=” highlight_size=” border=” border_color=” radius=’0px’ column_boxshadow=” column_boxshadow_color=” column_boxshadow_width=’10’ background=’bg_color’ background_color=” background_gradient_color1=” background_gradient_color2=” background_gradient_direction=’vertical’ src=” background_position=’top left’ background_repeat=’no-repeat’ animation=” mobile_breaking=” mobile_display=” av_uid=’av-b5a8aq’]
[av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=” av-medium-font-size=” av-small-font-size=” av-mini-font-size=” av_uid=’av-k5sfbj5o’ admin_preview_bg=”]
The special double issue of Agenda, ‘A Reconsideration of Rainer Maria Rilke’ has been referred to by several well-known critics as ‘the best yet’. Dennis O’Driscoll, well-known Irish poet and critic calls it ‘an outstanding issue – the fruit of hard and loving labour. It will serve as a permanent resource – a one-volume treasury – for Rilke readers, new and old’. Poet Brendan Kennelly calls it a ‘splendid, epic tribute to, and celebration of Rilke and his work.’ He continues: ‘It’s like a choir at its most magnificent…There’s something truly beautiful about the choir of poets paying tribute to Rilke’s unique spirit… Readers will love this issue of Agenda more as the years slip by.’

Its arresting cover is a fitting and charming woodcut by Caroline Trant http://carolyntrantparvenu.blogspot.com (email: [email protected] ). The varied and carefully chosen 288 pages contain an organised mixture of new translations/versions by mainly well-known translators and version-makers, with some new voices; highly interesting essays on Rilke, all of which take an original angle; a section of general poems to, on or for Rilke also by new and well-established poets; and translations of essays in French on Rilke.

Young poets continue to be encouraged and two very gifted chosen young Broadsheet poets, Adam O’Riordan and Zoe Brigley are highlighted here for prominence. Other fine young poets and artists feature in the accompanying online Broadsheet (No. 8 in the series) on this site.
[/av_textblock]
[/av_one_full]

[av_one_third min_height=” vertical_alignment=” space=” custom_margin=” margin=’0px’ row_boxshadow=” row_boxshadow_color=” row_boxshadow_width=’10’ link=” linktarget=” link_hover=” padding=’0px’ highlight=” highlight_size=” border=” border_color=” radius=’0px’ column_boxshadow=” column_boxshadow_color=” column_boxshadow_width=’10’ background=’bg_color’ background_color=” background_gradient_color1=” background_gradient_color2=” background_gradient_direction=’vertical’ src=” background_position=’top left’ background_repeat=’no-repeat’ animation=” mobile_breaking=” mobile_display=” av_uid=’av-35ld2q’]
[av_hr class=’default’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-thin’ custom_width=’50px’ custom_border_color=” custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’yes’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ av-desktop-hide=” av-medium-hide=” av-small-hide=” av-mini-hide=” av_uid=’av-4vbl2q’]
[/av_one_third]

[av_one_full first min_height=” vertical_alignment=” space=” custom_margin=” margin=’0px’ row_boxshadow=” row_boxshadow_color=” row_boxshadow_width=’10’ link=” linktarget=” link_hover=” padding=’0px’ highlight=” highlight_size=” border=” border_color=” radius=’0px’ column_boxshadow=” column_boxshadow_color=” column_boxshadow_width=’10’ background=’bg_color’ background_color=” background_gradient_color1=” background_gradient_color2=” background_gradient_direction=’vertical’ src=” background_position=’top left’ background_repeat=’no-repeat’ animation=” mobile_breaking=” mobile_display=” av_uid=’av-9r36aa’]
[av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=” av-medium-font-size=” av-small-font-size=” av-mini-font-size=” av_uid=’av-k5sf2b6b’ admin_preview_bg=”]
In November, 2006 the Editor of Agenda, Patricia McCarthy and Marcus Frederick, Administration Manager went to Florence, Italy where there was a German, American and Italian conference on Dante, with talks in Dante’s old house. There the Editor met Robert Pinski, a famous authority on Dante, and a past contributor to Agenda, who promises to contribute more work in the future.
[/av_textblock]
[/av_one_full]

[av_one_third min_height=” vertical_alignment=” space=” custom_margin=” margin=’0px’ row_boxshadow=” row_boxshadow_color=” row_boxshadow_width=’10’ link=” linktarget=” link_hover=” padding=’0px’ highlight=” highlight_size=” border=” border_color=” radius=’0px’ column_boxshadow=” column_boxshadow_color=” column_boxshadow_width=’10’ background=’bg_color’ background_color=” background_gradient_color1=” background_gradient_color2=” background_gradient_direction=’vertical’ src=” background_position=’top left’ background_repeat=’no-repeat’ animation=” mobile_breaking=” mobile_display=” av_uid=’av-6ap2v6′]
[av_image src=’https://www.agendapoetry.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/DanteFlorenceNov06.jpg’ attachment=’3395′ attachment_size=’full’ align=’center’ styling=” hover=” link=” target=” caption=” font_size=” appearance=” overlay_opacity=’0.4′ overlay_color=’#000000′ overlay_text_color=’#ffffff’ copyright=” animation=’no-animation’ av_uid=’av-k5sf0axk’ admin_preview_bg=”][/av_image]
[/av_one_third]

[av_one_third min_height=” vertical_alignment=” space=” custom_margin=” margin=’0px’ row_boxshadow=” row_boxshadow_color=” row_boxshadow_width=’10’ link=” linktarget=” link_hover=” padding=’0px’ highlight=” highlight_size=” border=” border_color=” radius=’0px’ column_boxshadow=” column_boxshadow_color=” column_boxshadow_width=’10’ background=’bg_color’ background_color=” background_gradient_color1=” background_gradient_color2=” background_gradient_direction=’vertical’ src=” background_position=’top left’ background_repeat=’no-repeat’ animation=” mobile_breaking=” mobile_display=” av_uid=’av-35ld2q’]
[av_hr class=’default’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-thin’ custom_width=’50px’ custom_border_color=” custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’yes’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ av-desktop-hide=” av-medium-hide=” av-small-hide=” av-mini-hide=” av_uid=’av-4vbl2q’]
[/av_one_third]

Peter Robinson, well-known contributor to Agenda with poetry and essays, has now moved from Japan where he lived for eighteen years to Reading. He has taken up a challenging post at the university there.
[/av_textblock]
[/av_one_full]

[av_one_third min_height=” vertical_alignment=” space=” custom_margin=” margin=’0px’ row_boxshadow=” row_boxshadow_color=” row_boxshadow_width=’10’ link=” linktarget=” link_hover=” padding=’0px’ highlight=” highlight_size=” border=” border_color=” radius=’0px’ column_boxshadow=” column_boxshadow_color=” column_boxshadow_width=’10’ background=’bg_color’ background_color=” background_gradient_color1=” background_gradient_color2=” background_gradient_direction=’vertical’ src=” background_position=’top left’ background_repeat=’no-repeat’ animation=” mobile_breaking=” mobile_display=” av_uid=’av-35ld2q’]
[av_hr class=’default’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-thin’ custom_width=’50px’ custom_border_color=” custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’yes’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ av-desktop-hide=” av-medium-hide=” av-small-hide=” av-mini-hide=” av_uid=’av-4vbl2q’]
[/av_one_third]

The Agenda office suffered two major bereavements recently: the Administration Manager’s father and the Editor’s mother. These are acknowledged by two poems written by the Editor on each of them at the front of the Rilke issue of Agenda.

It was with great sadness that we heard of the death of Michael Hamburger, well-known poet, translator and essayist. He has been associated with Agenda for many years, almost from its inception, and he has contributed to its pages many fine poems, translations and essays.
[/av_textblock]
[/av_one_full]

[av_one_third min_height=” vertical_alignment=” space=” custom_margin=” margin=’0px’ row_boxshadow=” row_boxshadow_color=” row_boxshadow_width=’10’ link=” linktarget=” link_hover=” padding=’0px’ highlight=” highlight_size=” border=” border_color=” radius=’0px’ column_boxshadow=” column_boxshadow_color=” column_boxshadow_width=’10’ background=’bg_color’ background_color=” background_gradient_color1=” background_gradient_color2=” background_gradient_direction=’vertical’ src=” background_position=’top left’ background_repeat=’no-repeat’ animation=” mobile_breaking=” mobile_display=” av_uid=’av-35ld2q’]
[av_hr class=’default’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-thin’ custom_width=’50px’ custom_border_color=” custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’yes’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ av-desktop-hide=” av-medium-hide=” av-small-hide=” av-mini-hide=” av_uid=’av-4vbl2q’]
[/av_one_third]

Edward Lowbury, who was also a contributor to Agenda, also sadly died recently.

[/av_textblock]
[/av_one_full]

[av_one_third min_height=” vertical_alignment=” space=” custom_margin=” margin=’0px’ row_boxshadow=” row_boxshadow_color=” row_boxshadow_width=’10’ link=” linktarget=” link_hover=” padding=’0px’ highlight=” highlight_size=” border=” border_color=” radius=’0px’ column_boxshadow=” column_boxshadow_color=” column_boxshadow_width=’10’ background=’bg_color’ background_color=” background_gradient_color1=” background_gradient_color2=” background_gradient_direction=’vertical’ src=” background_position=’top left’ background_repeat=’no-repeat’ animation=” mobile_breaking=” mobile_display=” av_uid=’av-35ld2q’]
[av_hr class=’default’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-thin’ custom_width=’50px’ custom_border_color=” custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’yes’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ av-desktop-hide=” av-medium-hide=” av-small-hide=” av-mini-hide=” av_uid=’av-4vbl2q’]
[/av_one_third]

[av_one_full first min_height=” vertical_alignment=” space=” custom_margin=” margin=’0px’ row_boxshadow=” row_boxshadow_color=” row_boxshadow_width=’10’ link=” linktarget=” link_hover=” padding=’0px’ highlight=” highlight_size=” border=” border_color=” radius=’0px’ column_boxshadow=” column_boxshadow_color=” column_boxshadow_width=’10’ background=’bg_color’ background_color=” background_gradient_color1=” background_gradient_color2=” background_gradient_direction=’vertical’ src=” background_position=’top left’ background_repeat=’no-repeat’ animation=” mobile_breaking=” mobile_display=” av_uid=’av-onzvma’]
[av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=” av-medium-font-size=” av-small-font-size=” av-mini-font-size=” av_uid=’av-k5s5y68y’ admin_preview_bg=”]
The latest issue of Agenda, Vol. 42 No.1, with a special focus on Poems on Water, came out in June, 2006. Also included is a long poem by John Fuller. Incisive essays at the cutting edge of poetry are by such notable critics as Martin Dodsworth and William Bedford.

Michael Kinsella is the chosen young Broadsheet essayist. The two Broadsheet poets highlighted in the issue are Sinead Wilson, 31, and Ailie MacDonald, 18, whose work shows a surprising maturity.

Agenda’s continual encouragement of young poets and essayists is further demonstrated, as always, by the accompaniment of a very lively, colourful online Broadsheet 6. This contains work by 16 ‘young’ poets: Tom Bedford (17), Ross Cogan (35), Sarah Hesketh (22), Carley Moulton (22), P.T. Abbott (19), Anne- Louise Kershaw (26), Lisa D’Onofrio (34), Shivani Sivagurunathan (24), Jessica Harkins (32), Peter Upham (36), Lawrence Bradby (36), Anthony Trevelyan (32), P. Viktor (27), Natalie Ford (30), Naomi Foyle (38), Tupa Snyder (30).
[/av_textblock]
[/av_one_full]

[av_one_third min_height=” vertical_alignment=” space=” custom_margin=” margin=’0px’ row_boxshadow=” row_boxshadow_color=” row_boxshadow_width=’10’ link=” linktarget=” link_hover=” padding=’0px’ highlight=” highlight_size=” border=” border_color=” radius=’0px’ column_boxshadow=” column_boxshadow_color=” column_boxshadow_width=’10’ background=’bg_color’ background_color=” background_gradient_color1=” background_gradient_color2=” background_gradient_direction=’vertical’ src=” background_position=’top left’ background_repeat=’no-repeat’ animation=” mobile_breaking=” mobile_display=” av_uid=’av-35ld2q’]
[av_hr class=’default’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-thin’ custom_width=’50px’ custom_border_color=” custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’yes’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ av-desktop-hide=” av-medium-hide=” av-small-hide=” av-mini-hide=” av_uid=’av-4vbl2q’]
[/av_one_third]

[av_one_full first min_height=” vertical_alignment=” space=” custom_margin=” margin=’0px’ row_boxshadow=” row_boxshadow_color=” row_boxshadow_width=’10’ link=” linktarget=” link_hover=” padding=’0px’ highlight=” highlight_size=” border=” border_color=” radius=’0px’ column_boxshadow=” column_boxshadow_color=” column_boxshadow_width=’10’ background=’bg_color’ background_color=” background_gradient_color1=” background_gradient_color2=” background_gradient_direction=’vertical’ src=” background_position=’top left’ background_repeat=’no-repeat’ animation=” mobile_breaking=” mobile_display=” av_uid=’av-2b0bqa’]
[av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=” av-medium-font-size=” av-small-font-size=” av-mini-font-size=” av_uid=’av-k5s5vmos’ admin_preview_bg=”]
Continuing online is the series for poets and teachers alike of Notes for Broadsheet Poets (also printed in the magazine). This time, these Notes consist mainly of wise, highly articulate and profound excerpts chosen from the ‘Poet’s Journal’ of the well-known Irish poet and verse-dramatist, Pádraic Fallon . Dip into these to be inspired, entertained, intellectually challenged and impressed.

What to watch for:.

A write-up on the latest issue of Agenda in The Arts & Books pages of the Independent on Friday, July 28th, 2006
On Sunday, July 9th, 2006, June English’s poem, ‘Family Day, June 1967’ which is printed on page 14 of the latest issue of Agenda will be the chosen poem in the Independent on Sunday.
The new online supplement to the Poems on Water in the issue consists of further beautifully executed poems (and translations) focusing on water from many different angles. There was no further space in the issue for these fine poems, and some unfortunately arrived too late, but the web is equally prized and gives considerable exposure, which, it is hoped, reverberates back to the magazine. Poems on Water in the online supplement are by: David Betteridge, Mark Leech who has translated Frederico Garcia Lorca and Andres Sabella, Julian Farmer who has translated Anna Akhmatova, Nigel McLoughlin with two of his own poems and a translation from the Irish of Máirtín Ó Díreáin, Davina Prince, Sean Elliott, Graham Burchell, Byron Beynon, Joseph Horgan and Catherine Mazodier who entwines the two languages of French and English.

New highlighted translations in the online Translation section include: Güven Turan translated from the Turkish by Ruth Christie, Samaine Bouinou translated from the French by Fred Johnston, Hervé Chesnais translated from the French by Fred Johnston, Carlos Pezoa Veltz translated from the Spanish by Mark Leech, Jorge Teiller translated from the Spanish by Mark Leech, Andres Sabella translated from the Spanish by Mark Leech, Anna Akhmatova translated from the Russian by Julian Farmer, Montale translated by Tom Day, Catherine Mezodier who entwines English and French, Seán Ó’Ríordáin translated from the Irish by Greg Delanty.

Please see general interest essays with young essayist Julia Forster whose subject is ‘Critical Openness: A Study of Poetry in Public Places‘.
[/av_textblock]
[/av_one_full]

[av_one_third min_height=” vertical_alignment=” space=” custom_margin=” margin=’0px’ row_boxshadow=” row_boxshadow_color=” row_boxshadow_width=’10’ link=” linktarget=” link_hover=” padding=’0px’ highlight=” highlight_size=” border=” border_color=” radius=’0px’ column_boxshadow=” column_boxshadow_color=” column_boxshadow_width=’10’ background=’bg_color’ background_color=” background_gradient_color1=” background_gradient_color2=” background_gradient_direction=’vertical’ src=” background_position=’top left’ background_repeat=’no-repeat’ animation=” mobile_breaking=” mobile_display=” av_uid=’av-35ld2q’]
[av_hr class=’default’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-thin’ custom_width=’50px’ custom_border_color=” custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’yes’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ av-desktop-hide=” av-medium-hide=” av-small-hide=” av-mini-hide=” av_uid=’av-4vbl2q’]
[/av_one_third]