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Adrian Slatcher writes poetry, fiction and criticism, and lives in Manchester.
C.D. Wright
One Big Self - photo by Deborah Luster
I first read C.D. Wright in Poetry, extracts from her “One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana”, a fascinating work, with poems by Wright and photographs by Deborah Luster, and from this ordered her recent selected, “Steal Away.” At the time it was only available in the U.S. but since then has been reissued by Bloodaxe. This is a poet who is appears always to be in flux, different projects requiring different methods, but at the heart of her work there’s often a profound lyricism that is anything but accidental. “Discovered poets” mean more to me than those thrust upon me, and Wright, though highly regarded and widely published is one of those. A poem such as the beautiful Lake Echo, Dear has both a surface calm and hidden depths.
Interview with C.D. Wright (2001, Jacket Magazine)
Wikipedia entry for C.D. Wright
Selected Poems (UK) (US)
Read her poems at the Poetry Foundation
Art of Fiction – Blogging About Literature
- Blogging OffI've been blogging for a long time, but what was once called "push button publishing" has found itself left behind in an era of social media tweets and Facebook posts on the one hand, and web zines and memes on the other.I've been not writing that much here for quite some time, an the odd review or feature couldn't really make up for […]
- Albums of the DecadeWith 2019 - and the decade - coming to a rapid close, the first lists of "best albums of the 20-teens" have started to come out. Whereas the younger me could tell you what year any album had come out, everything gets a bit hazy around the millennium...and continues to be so.Was "The Suburbs", easily my favourite Arcade Fire album as long […]
- Never Mind / Bad News / Some Hope - Edward St. AubynThe three novels Edward St. Aubyn wrote about "Patrick Melrose" between 1992-94, though they've since been expanded to a quintology, are really three long chapters of the same book. In "Brideshead Revisited" Sebastian Flyte warns Charles Ryder about his family, not wanting them to first charm him, and then destroy him; but any such w […]
- Short StoriesI had a bit of a flurry of getting short stories published a few years ago, but nothing in the last year or so. Strangely the last story I had published was picked up for Best British Short Stories 2018. I think I've lost the thread of who is publishing what, but doing a bit of writer's admin, I've found I've got about half a dozen comple […]
- Art ThoughtsI've been thinking of doing more visual art for a while, and finally having a space of my own where I can set up a "studio" has led me to do it. Not being an "artist" I wondered why I was wanting to do this as well as my writing and music. Here are a few thoughts.I am not an artist. Or rather I haven’t the skill of an artist, even if […]
