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09 Mar, 2021
A key critical text
Norton have now published a newer edition with a new forward by Michael Gorra; whether or not the accompanying essays have been changed I’ve been unable to find out. That said this is a key critical text for comparing James’s 1881 edition with his New York Edition almost thirty years later and hundreds of textual changes - particularly if you cannot afford the new Cambridge edition.
12 Nov, 2022
Profoundly moving
Roger Doyle has utilised a number of old answer machine messages from his own phone by integrating them with 11 tracks of varying musical styles - some electro-acoustic, certainly high energy, sometims owing something to minimalist (dashes of Terry Riley) - sometimes to garage (or is it house?) - dance - and sometimes just piano and violin – with occasional Irish melodic tints. The music is different from track to track as the mood changes and shifts with the emotional tone of the messages. I initially heard a track from this on R3's CD review - live voice recordings integrated into a composition are intriguing (hear also David Gorton's 'Orfordness').
The answer phone messages taken from between 1987 and 1989 are loosely grouped around a number of themes - birth, contracts, coming out of hospital. They combine with the music in different ways - sometimes you have to tune your ears to pick up out the words, sometimes the voice is more forward. A powerful series of autobiographical and biographical portraits are presented that are very poignant - the birth of a grandchild - the concerns of friends. That many of the speakers are now dead is almost unbearable - relatives and friends all captured in different roles - what would have become of Jonathan Philbin Bowman in 'Coat-hanger Kisses' (part of which is printed in the booklet) with his wonderful 'stream of consciousness message' who died in 2000 at the age of 31? Roger Doyle has caught these moments and spun them in a musical web that is intriguing, brilliant and profoundly moving.
28 Sep, 2021
Best place to start with J H Prynne
The late N H Reeve is a meticulous scholar with studies of both Henry James and Rex Warner. This critical work was the first book length study of J H Prynne; it’s clear and concise in its critical approaches without many of the complexities of later studies - this is the best place to start on our leading high or post-modernist poet.