Dr. Andy's Poetry and Technology Hour

Listen to Catherine's November 21st  appearance on Dr. Andy's Poetry and Technology Hour on KDVS, 90.3 Davis.

Poster Poems: December

Now live over at the Guardian, discussing seasonal poems by Spenser, Coleridge, Poe, Les Murray, Graham Rowlands, Michael McClure, Richard Brautigan, May Sarton and Anne Waldman.

Poster Poems: November

Live now on the Guardian Books site. Discussing poems by Edmund Spenser, Thomas W Shapcott, John Kinsella, Adelaide Crapsey, Howard Nemerov, Kenneth Rexroth, Denise Levertov, Anne Sexton and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Catherine reading at Berkeley

Poster Poems: October

Now live on the Guardian site. Discussing poems by Spenser, Dylan Thomas, Lyn Hejinian, Ted Kooser, Yeats, Anne Stevenson, Eliot and Wordsworth. Pop by and post a poem.

Poster Poems: September

Now up and running on the Guardian, with poems by Spenser, Auden. Yeats, Levertov, Geoffrey Hill, Carl Sandburg, WS Merwin and Thomas Kinsella,

Two new articles over on the Guardian site:

Path to enlightenment: how walking inspires writers and the August Poster Poems.

New titles from hardPressed poetry

Catherine Walsh: Astonished Birds Cara, Jane, Bob and James
ISBN:  978-1-872781-05-1
Price before postage:  15.50 EUR/12.50 GBP/20.00 USD
100 pages, 235 x 191 mm Perfect Bound
Cover photo by Catherine Walsh

Catherine Walsh's new book Astonished Birds Cara, Jane, Bob and James moves on from Optic Verve, differently.

Billy Mills: Imaginary Gardens
ISBN: 978-1-872781-04-4
Price before postage:  15.50 EUR/12.50 GBP/20.00 USD
100 pages, 216 x 140 mm Perfect Bound
Cover photo by Catherine Walsh

This is Billy Mills' latest book, following on from his 2009 collected poems, Lares/Manes. It is a single long poem in one hundred sections, tracing some of his typical concerns of place and time.




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Poster Poems: July

Now live on the Guardian Books site, with poems by Spenser, Lewis Carroll, RL Stephenson, Anna Akhmatova, Sassoon, John Haines, Robert Lowell, Wordsworth and Patrick Kavanagh.

Poster Poems: June

Now live over at the Guardian site.

Poster Poems: May

Live now on Guardian Books.

Writer Idol

An article on the Writer Idol event at the West Cork Literary Festival now live on the Guardian Books Blog.

Poster Poems: April

Now live on the Guardian Books site. Featuring poems by Spenser, Chaucer, T.S. Eliot, Dorothy and William Wordsworth, Arthur Symons, Langston Hughes and Charles Reznikoff.

Poster Poems: March

Now up on the Guardian Books page, this month's Poster Poems features, amongst others, Elizabeth Bishop, Emily Dickinson, Swift, Swinburne and Gary Snyder.

Poster Poems: February

Is now live over at the Guardian Books site. Featuring Edmund Spenser, Thomas Kinsella and Denise Levertov, amongst others.

Poster Poems: January

The first of a projected series of 12, one for each month of 2012, is now up on the Guardian Books site.