Poet Portraits

Querilous? Listening to the linnet, a new song? Dubious? Musing? Busy containing multitudes? – Our own wali.…

“The drunken cherub,” they called him, this bolt of delicious verbal lightning from Swansea, Wales, the rolling rich voice tha…

Lawrence, so well known for his novels, scandalous or true, or scandalous AND true, but for me it’s his poetry that survives f…

The most accurate, or copied, of the lot… An iconic photograph we associate with him, since there are so few photographs, and …

This drawing gets more of his contempt, the contempt of a dreamer, who envisioned an alchemical Utopia, seeing around him the …

Was it that this twenty-year old wrote the most elegant, fiery, super-conscious, literature-if-not-world-changing poetry of th…

Here’s his Scowliness, the irascible Ezra Pound, in his earlier more swashbuckling days, wild man of a new poetry still reverb…

I did a series of poet portraits, probably from an Oscar Williams anthology, so I might have been in my early 20s, in the…