Congratulations to Niall who, I have a feeling, will distinguish himself as a very interesting editor in his new role. 👏👏💥

A pleasure and honour to launch 'Derick Thomson and the Gaelic Revival' in conversation with Roibeard Ó Maolalaigh and Ian MacDonald. My thanks to all who came along and to Gaelic Books Council for support and a great welcome. Edinburgh University Press Photos by Gerry Cambridge

Unsolicited appreciations are always pleasing, particularly when their authors seem to get what the auld equine is all about. 🙏 🙌👇🥂

For Richard Wilbur's birthday #OTD , a lovely piece on the intertwining of poets by David Livewell, recreating Wilbur's visit with Seamus Heaney to the grave of Gerard Manley Hopkins in Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin. First published in The Dark Horse #41.

Robert Frost around 1905, with a bit of real originality. No prizes for guessing his own favoured strategy for poems. 👇

With reference to my previous post, & Robt Frost dying OTD in 1963, James McGonigal asked the question below, which reminded me of this fine poem by David Mason, published over 20 years ago in The Dark Horse issue 9/10. 👇

Robert Frost died OTD in 1963. The Thompson biography(3 vols!) is notorious for the criticisms of its famous subject. I knew of the Leith connection, but as a big fan of the poetry, I’m delighted by the discovery (for me) that Frost’s mother’s Uncle was…an Ayrshireman! 🙂👏👏👇

The very considerable Victoria Moul with some Dark Horse praise. 🙏🙏

This is a wonderfully touching reminiscence of one of the most interesting, gentlemanly, acute & loveable Irish poet-critics of the last 50 years by his younger brother. ❤️😭👏👏

He has gone down into darkness at the wrecked end of the year
And is lying, gaberlunzie, in the needled nest of frost…

—Gerry Cambridge, “Processional at the Winter Solstice”
Published in Notes for Lighting a Fire (HappenStance Press 2012)
scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/processio…

Interesting thread on ‘popular’ & ‘serious’ poetry, the increasing ineffectualness of prize culture in poetry (except to the poets) & other related matters.

Excellent news about one of the best of the current poetry magazines in the UK. Brava! 👏👏👏

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This classy Robert Lowell essay from Kathryn Gray 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 in The Dark Horse exemplifies her own gold standard for poetry: 'a trifecta of emotional identification, *and* intellectual growth, *and philosophical interrogation' & makes me want to read more Lowell — & more Kathryn Gray! 💛

The Dark Horse 47 also has an outstanding piece by Stewart Sanderson 'The Eneados: On Gavin Douglas's Great Translation', one of the rare pieces of criticism to give brilliant insight into the music of poetry

Andrew Neilson is a prose stylist to envy as well as being wise beyond wise. He has this marvellous review essay in the consistently brilliant The Dark Horse. This issue also features magnificent poems from Niall Campbell and Celandine, among others. ❤️🌸❤️🌸

“How to compress; how to enliven”. thedarkhorsemagazine.com/Issues/Issue-47

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Anyone looking to read more of Lady Red Ego’s striking work after encountering it here can find it in her first book, published earlier this year by Blue Diode Press press, Your Turn to Speak! 👏👏