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Two poems in The Shore

Posted on December 3, 2021 by A.D. Harper

Very pleased that two of my poems appear in issue 11 of The Shore. The poems are The Gallery and No mountains, great lakes, cliffs, Thank you to the editorial team!

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Robert Lowell on the raw and the cooked

Posted on August 22, 2021 by A.D. Harper

Two poetries are now competing, a cooked and a raw. The cooked, marvelously expert, often seems laboriously concocted to be tasted and digested by a graduate seminar. The raw, huge blood-dripping gobbets of unseasoned experience are dished up for midnight … Continue reading →

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‘The Cooler’ in The Interpreter’s House

Posted on July 6, 2018 by A.D. Harper

Delighted to say that The Interpreter’s House issue 68 is out, the final issue edited by Martin Malone and assistant Charles Lauder Jnr. I’m delighted my poem ‘The Cooler’ is included, my second appearance in TIH after two of my … Continue reading →

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‘Sheer’ in Mirror Dance

Posted on June 20, 2017 by A.D. Harper

The Summer 2017 issue of fantasy zine Mirror Dance has gone live, with a theme of masks and disguises. As well as fiction, it contains poems by Jeana Jorgensen, Mary Soon Lee, Todd Dillard and Robert Beveridge. Delighted that it … Continue reading →

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‘The Well’ in Liminality

Posted on March 20, 2017 by A.D. Harper

The eleventh issue of Liminality has gone live today. I’m very pleased that my poem ‘The Well‘ is included, my fourth appearance in the journal. Thanks to Shira Lipkin and Mattie Joiner!

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James Wright on the Olympian syndicate

Posted on February 7, 2017 by A.D. Harper

In 1958, in July, [Wright] wrote me a letter (I’m sure similar letters went to others) in which he announced that he was through writing poems. […] The first issue of Robert Bly’s magazine, The Fifties, which he read at … Continue reading →

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Joseph Harrison on writing and Penelope

Posted on December 3, 2016 by A.D. Harper

Penelope’s situation (in Homer, of course, it’s a death shroud she’s weaving) seems to me an interesting figure for the predicament of the writer or artist: making something, ripping it up, making something, ripping it up, all the while vaguely … Continue reading →

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W. H. Auden on the function of poetry (1938)

Posted on December 1, 2016 by A.D. Harper

The primary function of poetry, as of all the arts, is to make us more aware of ourselves and the world around us. I do not know if such increased awareness makes us more moral or more efficient;I hope not. … Continue reading →

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‘headache (hoofbeats)’ in Butcher’s Dog

Posted on November 29, 2016 by A.D. Harper

Butcher’s Dog is a biannual poetry magazine, founded in the North-East of England. It has rotating co-editors, and a policy of anonymous submissions. The 40-page issue 8 is co-edited by Sophie F Baker, Amy Mackelden, and Clare Pollard, with a … Continue reading →

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‘The Trade’ in The Stinging Fly

Posted on November 27, 2016 by A.D. Harper

The Stinging Fly is a journal from Dublin featuring short stories, essays and poems, by Irish and international writers. The 160-page Winter 2016-2017 issue has a theme of “Fear and Fantasy”, with a cover illustration by Gary Coyle. The guest … Continue reading →

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