tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14903019151540360992024-03-13T04:28:55.154-07:00CUCKOOSPELLJohn Redmond kibitzing on poetry, chess, and related matters,JRedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16947835167172889673noreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1490301915154036099.post-58977700271937098932016-06-09T07:06:00.004-07:002016-06-09T07:11:29.705-07:00Proofs for The Alexandra SequenceI've had the proofs for <i><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Alexandra-Sequence-John-Redmond/dp/1784102040/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1465481418&sr=8-1&keywords=the+alexandra+sequence">The Alexandra Sequence</a> </i>now. Carcanet have done a good job on it. I also got my preferred cover image. It seems that the book<i> </i>will be coming out in September.JRedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16947835167172889673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1490301915154036099.post-53064125649015869752015-06-03T07:20:00.001-07:002015-06-03T07:20:09.386-07:00Portico Library ReadingLooking forward to reading on June 25th at the <a href="http://www.theportico.org.uk/">Portico Library</a> in Manchester with Bath Spa Professor, Tim Liardet.JRedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16947835167172889673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1490301915154036099.post-34431561337197730962015-06-01T06:38:00.002-07:002015-06-03T07:20:57.463-07:00The Alexandra SequenceIt looks like the publication date for my next book of poems, <i>The Alexandra Sequence</i>, is July 2016.JRedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16947835167172889673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1490301915154036099.post-74326594126322016922015-04-24T03:15:00.001-07:002015-04-24T03:15:03.181-07:00I'm on the Carcanet blog talking about <a href="http://carcanetblog.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/mumming-and-poetry-by-john-redmond.html">mumming and poetry</a>. It's in relation to my next of poems, <i>The Alexandra Sequence</i>, which is due out in July 2016.JRedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16947835167172889673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1490301915154036099.post-22376278808437572192013-06-27T00:00:00.006-07:002013-06-27T00:01:04.256-07:00Some more reviewsA few more reviews of <i>Poetry and Privacy</i> have emerged. There is one in <i>The Guardian</i> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/jun/21/poetry-privacy-john-redmond-review">by David Wheatley</a> and another on the <i>Tower Poetry</i> website <a href="http://www.towerpoetry.org.uk/component/content/article/566">by Claire Crowther</a>.JRedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16947835167172889673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1490301915154036099.post-25552891698743105372013-04-26T05:19:00.000-07:002013-04-26T05:19:00.601-07:00First review of Poetry and Privacy<i>Poetry and Privacy </i>has been <a href="http://www.stridemagazine.co.uk/Stride%20mag%202013/april%202013/redmond%20rev.kennedy.htm">reviewed by David Kennedy</a> at <i>Stride</i> magazine - this is the first review of the book (at least to my knowledge!)JRedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16947835167172889673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1490301915154036099.post-55808885020748357172013-04-05T04:38:00.001-07:002013-04-05T04:38:33.730-07:00Video of a poem being readThe people at <a href="http://www.literaturenorthwest.co.uk/">Literature Northwest</a> have just put together a suite of writer-performance videos. I'm seen in one <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9i6qAcScu2w&list=UUv5U5Ahwj6Z68dkIFIRDlBQ">reading my poem, 'Grand Theft America'</a> (from <i>MUDe</i>) and talking briefly about my work.JRedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16947835167172889673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1490301915154036099.post-52043495765752612762013-03-14T03:05:00.001-07:002013-03-14T03:05:34.130-07:00The latest <i>PN Review</i> contains an interesting interview with Peter McDonald conducted by Fran Brearton. It contains quite a lot about McDonald's early formation which I didn't know. I've also got a new poem in the issue: 'Alexandra One'.JRedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16947835167172889673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1490301915154036099.post-90170351120507745372013-01-16T06:25:00.000-08:002013-01-16T06:25:00.622-08:00Some delay to the publication of <i><a href="http://www.serenbooks.com/book/poetry-and-privacy-questioning-public-interpretations-of-contemporary-british-and-irish-poetry/9781854115850">Poetry and Privacy</a>.</i> But I've had proofs now and the publisher is just creating the index. So it should be out in a few weeks - fingers crossed!JRedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16947835167172889673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1490301915154036099.post-71680282075059214352012-06-04T09:57:00.004-07:002012-06-04T09:57:57.452-07:00First sight of new book A listing for <i>Poetry and Privacy</i>, my <a href="http://www.whsmith.co.uk/CatalogAndSearch/ProductDetails.aspx?productID=9781854115850#">new book</a>, appears on the W. H. Smith website.JRedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16947835167172889673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1490301915154036099.post-60136293124663986712012-04-24T05:45:00.001-07:002012-04-24T05:45:38.956-07:00Durcan and KennellyThe <i>Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Poetry</i> <a href="http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199561247.do">appears now</a> in the OUP catalogue. I've got an essay in it - there are 40 contributors! - which assesses Paul Durcan and Brendan Kennelly. Both of these poets have been very popular, of course, and they have had some academic attention. In his time Kennelly has probably been over-rated, but I'm not sure Durcan has been fairly treated (at least by academia.)JRedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16947835167172889673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1490301915154036099.post-3508564915377467492012-03-06T09:57:00.000-08:002012-03-06T09:57:27.084-08:00New poemsI've got some new poems up at <a href="http://www.scribd.com/DigitalBehemoth/d/80111585-Digital-Behemoth-Study-Text-2">Digital Behemoth</a>.JRedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16947835167172889673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1490301915154036099.post-32185052880125633672011-10-19T07:55:00.000-07:002011-10-19T07:58:12.414-07:00Review of Liddy 'Selected'Over on his blog, Michael Begnal, the editor of <i>Honeysuckle, Honeyjuice,</i> has written a positive <a href="http://mikebegnal.blogspot.com/">review</a> of Liddy's <i>Selected Poems</i>.JRedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16947835167172889673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1490301915154036099.post-71325188107812659712011-07-13T08:58:00.001-07:002011-07-13T09:11:30.273-07:00Irish Championships 2011As it happened, I managed to exceed my targeted performance in the Irish Chess Championship. I finished in <a href="http://www.e2e4.org.uk/ireland/seniors.htm">second place</a>, scored 7/9, and had a rating performance of 2397. <div>In the penultimate round, I was a little unlucky, when, in travelling to the venue, I was delayed by a double accident on the M50. This meant I got to the venue 35 minutes late and I didn't manage to win the game. I doubt it would have made any difference to the overall result, though, as Stephen Brady was simply playing too well. </div><div>I did particularly well with the Black pieces, scoring 4/4 (following 4/5 with Black last year). I even got away with <a href="http://www.irlchess.com/irlch2011_allfiles/games_irlch2011/g16.htm">playing the Nimzo-Indian</a>, an opening I hadn't ventured for over twenty years.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>JRedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16947835167172889673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1490301915154036099.post-70630065828315737362011-06-30T04:06:00.000-07:002011-06-30T04:20:31.326-07:00After the launch<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-M0DXC5PtTeE/TgxY5o7WspI/AAAAAAAAAA8/xNnfUToM5wA/s1600/SelectedPoems%2BLiddy.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 205px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-M0DXC5PtTeE/TgxY5o7WspI/AAAAAAAAAA8/xNnfUToM5wA/s320/SelectedPoems%2BLiddy.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623967781941064338" /></a><i>James Liddy: Selected Poems</i> was launched at the <a href="http://www.writerscentre.ie/">Irish Writer's Centre</a> on Tuesday. There was a good crowd and five people gave readings from the book. <a href="http://arlenhouse.blogspot.com/">Arlen House</a> have done a fine job with the production of the Selected (including a limited edition hardback) and I am very happy with it.JRedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16947835167172889673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1490301915154036099.post-34863348820587258572011-06-26T06:33:00.000-07:002011-06-26T06:38:51.673-07:00Launch of Liddy's Selected Poems<i>The Irish Times </i>has <a href="http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2011/0625/1224299566934.html">looked forward</a> to the launch of Liddy's <i>Selected Poems </i>on Tuesday. The <a href="http://arlenhouse.blogspot.com/">Arlen House blog</a> also has some details as well as an image of the book's cover.JRedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16947835167172889673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1490301915154036099.post-25408850989945133652011-06-15T07:44:00.000-07:002011-06-15T08:12:45.566-07:00LiddyA couple of things have come out recently. The most important of these is <i>James Liddy: Selected Poems</i>, which has just emerged from Arlen House. There will be a launch at <a href="http://writerscentre.ie/html/events/celebratingjamesliddy.htm">The Irish Writer's Centre</a> in Dublin on June 28 at 7.00 pm. Besides that, I've got a poem in the new <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetry_Ireland_Review">Poetry Ireland</a> and a review (of <i><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hodge-Oliver-Reynolds/dp/0956273920">Hodge</a></i> by Oliver Reynolds) in <a href="http://www.newwelshreview.com/">New Welsh Review</a>. Meanwhile, I have an essay in the latest edition of <a href="http://www.thereader.org.uk/">The Reader</a> on the relationship between poetry and computer games.<div> On the chess front, I recently played at the <a href="http://www.e2e4.org.uk/">e2e4</a> event at Sunningdale. I came <a href="http://www.e2e4.org.uk/sunningdale/May2011/open.htm">joint sixth</a> in a group of players on 4.5/7 with a performance rating of 2265. Not so bad (my only loss was to GM <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Arkell">Keith Arkell</a>) and that was certainly a lot better than my performance of 2139 at this year's <a href="htttp://www.4ncl.co.uk">4NCL</a>. Probably the final event I will play this season is the <a href="http://www.e2e4.org.uk/ireland/index.htm">Irish Championships</a> in Dublin where I would like to improve on the score I got last year of 5.5/9.</div>JRedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16947835167172889673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1490301915154036099.post-86255422307270794132011-04-18T09:49:00.000-07:002011-04-18T09:50:48.241-07:00Some new poemsSome new poems of mine have gone up at <a href="http://connotationpress.com/a-poetry-congeries-with-john-hoppenthaler/813-john-redmond-poetry">John Hoppenthaler's site</a>.JRedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16947835167172889673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1490301915154036099.post-90364281270476533692011-04-16T08:56:00.000-07:002011-04-16T09:12:00.626-07:00Poetry and PrivacyIt looks like my critical book is coming out with Seren in July 2012. The full title is: <i>Poetry and Privacy: Questioning Public Interpretations of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry</i>. I'll probably tweak a few things between now and publication day, but the set of chapters, if not the exact sequence, is fairly certain: (a) Mahon (b) Maxwell (c) Heaney and Plath (d) Minhinnick (e) Groarke (f) Burnside (g) Jones and GrahamJRedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16947835167172889673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1490301915154036099.post-21619061803681668402011-04-15T09:14:00.000-07:002011-04-15T09:20:16.393-07:00Selected Poems of James LiddyI've been co-editing the <i>Selected Poems of James Liddy</i> for the past while. On my visit to Madison some weeks ago I was able to meet up with my co-editor, Tyler Farrell, with James's partner, Jim Chapson, and with Alan Hayes, the likely publisher of the book. It's possible that this volume, which will be a relatively <i>selective</i> Selected, may now appear sooner (i.e. this summer) rather than later.JRedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16947835167172889673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1490301915154036099.post-81073432494537178302010-10-27T04:30:00.000-07:002010-10-27T04:34:31.460-07:00Voyages Over VoicesLiverpool University Press has just brought out <a href="http://www.liverpool-unipress.co.uk/html/publication.asp?idProduct=3989">Voyages Over Voices</a>, which is a collection of essays on Anne Stevenson, as edited by Angela Leighton. I've got an essay in the volume, which deals with how Stevenson's poems often seem to have 'second thoughts'.JRedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16947835167172889673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1490301915154036099.post-1302801901186464172010-09-20T06:48:00.000-07:002010-09-20T06:49:40.249-07:00Reading with Peter FinchI've got a<a href="http://www.poetrylibrary.org.uk/events/fortnight/?id=5627"> poetry reading</a> coming up with Peter Finch on September 23rd.JRedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16947835167172889673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1490301915154036099.post-36342387035143113472010-08-23T04:13:00.001-07:002010-08-23T04:21:10.631-07:00Slanderous TonguesThe latest edition of <a href="http://www.newwelshreview.com/">New Welsh Review</a> has just appeared in my mailbox. Inside, I've got a longish review of <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Slanderous-Tongues-Essays-English-1997-2005/dp/1854114581/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1282562343&sr=1-1">Slanderous Tongues</a>, an essay collection about recent Welsh poetry which is edited by Daniel G. Williams. There are also some poems by Meirion Jordan (surely a bright prospect) and Tim Liardet reviews the latest book by Gwyneth Lewis.JRedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16947835167172889673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1490301915154036099.post-21920556322668069072010-07-13T12:12:00.000-07:002010-07-13T12:23:24.603-07:00Irish ChampionshipsThe Irish Chess Championship has just concluded in Dublin, and I finished in joint fifth place with 5.5/9 - my best performance since coming back to chess in 2006. My most memorable game was actually the one I <a href="http://www.icu.ie/games/display.php?id=29599&align=left">lost </a>to the eventual winner of the tournament, Alex Lopez from Cork. Apart from the debacle of misremembering the start-time for that game (which I could have forfeited - Alex sportingly agreed to play it out), it was a good event for me. Particularly with the black pieces where I scored 4/5, beating Mark Orr with the Leningrad Dutch and (somewhat fortuitously) winning a double rook endgame when two pawns down against Peter Cafolla.JRedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16947835167172889673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1490301915154036099.post-7152229609039017622010-06-16T09:51:00.000-07:002010-06-16T09:52:58.925-07:00Eyewear poemA new poem of mine has gone up on <a href="http://toddswift.blogspot.com/2010/06/new-poem-by-john-redmond.html">Eyewear</a>. It's one of a series of poems about my experiences as a porter in Oxford.JRedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16947835167172889673noreply@blogger.com0