Last time we saw literary bitchiness, it was James Joyce serving out the bitch jabs to T.S. Eliot. This time, its the American’s on the attack of Mr. Modernist Jim Joyce. I love how the narrator tries to underline how un-American James Joyce was.
Archive for the ‘Documentaries’ Category
Seasons project – the films of Geoffrey Jones
Posted in Documentaries, tagged Daphne Oram, Geoffrey Jones, Seasons Project, Shell Spirit, The Rhythm of Film on January 30, 2011 | 1 Comment »
UPDATE 5TH MARCH 2011: I am delighted to be able to show you Jones’ the ‘Seasons Project’, put up by a very good friend of mine. Please enjoy. The rest of the post is below: I’m not usually one to say something is like poetry, which has to be the worst simile know to the [...]
Voices and Visions poetry documentaries – Lowell, Frost, Carlos Williams, Pound, Eliot etc.
Posted in Documentaries, Poetry finds on August 15, 2010 | 3 Comments »
There are two reasons why I like poetry interviews. The first is that the writer in questions gets talked about with great relish by his contemporaries and critics (also some of them are pretty strange looking, Hugh Kenner, for example). The second is because, more often than not, they offer a depth to the subject [...]
Life, friends, is boring – John Berryman reading
Posted in Documentaries, Poetry finds, Uncategorized on March 11, 2010 | 1 Comment »
John Berryman, here pictured with Robert Lowell, was both literally and metaphorically, a giant. His Dream Songs are amongst some of the most interesting verse that came out of America in the middle of the 20th Century. Linked here is a video of Berryman giving an interview and reading the most famous of these songs, [...]
Practical cats and little hats – T.S. Eliot ‘Arena’ documentary
Posted in Documentaries, Poetry finds, Uncategorized on March 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Anyone who knows me vaguely well will know of my soft spot for the old possum powerhouse poet T.S. Eliot, pictured above with George Orwell towering over him. So, imagine my surprise when Arena, the BBC flagship documentary programme, decided to make an hour long piece about the man. This is of particular note considering [...]
Give me your arm, old Toad – Philip Larkin documentary
Posted in Documentaries, Poetry finds, Uncategorized on March 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Of late, i’ve been reading Further Requirements, a collection of statements, interviews and reviews by Philip Larkin throughout his career. I happened to come across this wonderful documentary about Larkin’s life, hosted by the amiable and reassuring ‘funny uncle’ of poetry John Betjeman, last month. It gives a wonderful insight into Larkin’s work and, importantly, [...]
