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I don’t understand this - cycling can be about pain, it can be about grace, it can be about luck or brilliance and I don’t see why women can’t exhibit all of these.

As the Giro started today with one of the most dominant displays by a favourite on day one… as @padraig (u.s.) said elsewhere there are some genuine box office superstars racing at present who are ripping up the rule books on how to race and are creating some of the most entertaining spectacles...

Olivia Laing’s The Trip to Echo Spring and Tom Sardis’ The Thirsty Muse deal with the hard drinking/alcoholic American writers of the early twentieth century.

The Disenchanted by Budd Schulberg - young guy has to escort older writer to an important event. Older writer is an absolute pisshead. Fantastic book about a weekend long bender made even better by the fact that it is a thinly veiled account of Schulberg’s youthful encounter with the dissolute...

Yep, I’m planning on watching a few once I’ve finished the book. I would’ve said re-watching but as it’s more than 35 years since I’ve seen any I think it’s safe to say chances of me remembering much is nil.

That’s the key. I was reading how the 18thC, I think, German translations of Shakespeare have become the standard versions, for the Germans they are Shakespeare. They give the reader that sense of the writer, their stance and bearing. Barnes did a good piece on the range of translations of...

There’s no way around the deplorable elements of Pound no matter how many people try to find excuses for him and I’ve done all the cantos, read the three volume biog plus countless other critical stuff. @craner piece on him is spot on

Among others.

I saw that and thought it was an incredibly partial take. But nothing new there.

Can’t believe this was published 10 years ago cos I remember reading it like it was last year. Really worth reading if you’re interested in the complexities of translation https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/181648/is-that-a-fish-in-your-ear-by-bellos-david/9780241954300

Yes, but I do agree with @Corpsey about the form which even Pound doesn’t tackle. Rimbaud clearly using a traditional form, playing with the troubadour ideas of old but with lots of modern bits, including a bit of smut - nipples etc.

Pound not afraid of the anachronism ‘chope’ He’s also not afraid to leave the beer out of the early stanza cos he’s going to reference it later. It gives him the space in that initial verse

From my version. This one at least a throws to have a regular rhythmic patterning. Rimbaud and his boots. Forever walking and wearing than out. Born with that itch to always be on the move. This poem is all about his potency - he knows he’s full of the sap of spring. I do think it’d be an...

i have the Sturrock and Harding selection that has some of his letters as well - it's a parallel text and i enjoy looking at the French which i can do little bits of sometimes. With the Verlaine it was much easier to translate into workable English and even quibble with some of the translations...

Moviedrome was very important- basically curating a whole cinema aesthetic for a generation

Currently reading the Penman as well. Been reading him since the NME - I got to meet him when he was promoting his previous book - very sharp and funny but also utterly self deprecating. This one feels like his real mission - to do Fassbinder justice - warts and all. I think the best thing is...

After @Benny B wrote about Season in Hell I got my copies of Verlaine and Rimbaud off the shelf. It’s been a very enjoyable week revisiting these two. Very different poetical techniques but both super charged, full on, electric poets. The sneering violence of Rimbaud at times is fantastic...

Dennis Bovell produced The Pop Group stuff I think

Finally got to the Prado in the holidays. Once I got away from the hordes who only seemed to want to hang out by the Garden of Earthly delights it was manageable. Got to see the Goya black paintings pretty much by myself.