The excellent Poetry Spotlight series cast their beam my way today. In the interview, I talk about various projects such as Transatlantic Poetry, Poet Tips, and my film-poem collaborations with Valerie. The poem at the end is brand new, and could only have been written in present circumstances. Enjoy.
My copies of Poetry Salzburg Review 28 arrived today, with its signature surrealist cover holding nearly 200 pages of enticing poetry and reviews. Among them are two new poems from me–“The Computer Programmer’s Wife”, to which I expect many a beleaguered techno-spouse might relate, and the off-kilter Anglophonic lament “Getting On With It”. I am
Two Poems, and a Review of The Knowledge, in Poetry Salzburg Review Read More »
“If you don’t read Robert Peake’s The Knowledge as a taking-up-again of existential conversation, you’re doing it wrong.” Thus begins Abby E. Murray’s confident and considered review of my new collection for Fjords Review. It is a gift to be read at all, and clear that Abby has spent quality time with the book and
The internet wants to turn us into zombies. I behold the transformation, as one by one my fellow commuters whip out their smartphones–the eyes go dead, the jaw goes slack, drool glistening at the corners of the mouth. They are reading, yes, but what are they reading? A mish-mash of “messaging” designed to provoke consumer
The simplest and least useful way to think of poetry is in two types: good and bad. Yet for those willing to look deeper, there is much to be gained from attempting to understand and appreciate the wide and varied landscape of contemporary poetry. One of the mistakes of the beginning poet is to confuse popularity with quality;
The film-poem genre has attracted considerable interest from various disciplines, and is beginning to gain astute critical insight as an emerging artistic form. One excellent vehicle is the German-based Poetryfilmkanal website. I was delighted to be asked to write an essay for them about the fascination of the film-poem. The relationship between art and memory
