Category Archives: cambridge

A seed, a shine, a glow; thoughts on Edwin Morgan

Posted on December 10, 2010 by Charles Lambert

Not so much thoughts, perhaps, as a sort of memory. Edwin Morgan came to read for Blue Room, the poetry society John Wilkinson, Charlie Bulbeck and I ran in Cambridge in the early 1970s. Assiduous readers of this blog will … Continue reading →

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Readings of Genet (mine)

Posted on June 17, 2010 by Charles Lambert

Forgive my absence. If this blog were a different kind of open book from the one it is, I’d have a lot to tell, but, post-Diana, and unfashionably, I’ve opted for discretion. Which means that all I’m using it for … Continue reading →

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dsh, or seduction in lower case

Posted on March 18, 2010 by Charles Lambert

I’ve been shamefully absent from this blog recently, but, in partial recompense, here’s the chance to read a piece I wrote for the first number of the resurrected Cambridge Literary Review about my memories of the concrete poet and Benedictine … Continue reading →

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Me again

Posted on September 28, 2009 by Charles Lambert

Another self-promoting post, I’m afraid. Here’s a two-page glimpse of the first number of the new Cambridge Literary Review, which not only contains this poem, written in 1973, but also a memoir of my meeting with the concrete poet Dom … Continue reading →

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PS to previous post

Posted on November 8, 2008 by Charles Lambert

St John’s appointed HSD College Rat Catcher in 1967. 

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In the stump of the old tree

Posted on November 8, 2008 by Charles Lambert

I’ve just come across a Guardian blogpost by Billy Mills about the pleasure of discovering little-known writers, in which he mentions Hugh Sykes Davies, pictured above in the grounds of St John’s, Cambridge, where he taught. Like Billy, I first … Continue reading →

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Derek Brewer

Posted on November 4, 2008 by Charles Lambert

I see from today’s Independent that Derek Brewer died a couple of weeks ago, coincidentally on my birthday. He’s praised there for being a Chaucerian, as, of course, he was, pre-eminently, but my memories of him come from the summer … Continue reading →

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Andrew Crozier 1943-2008

Posted on April 7, 2008 by Charles Lambert

Of all the ‘Cambridge’ poets, Andrew Crozier was the one who touched me most often, and most consistently. Ferry Press was central to the whole enterprise. I loved his intelligence and his eye, and I’m sorry to see him go. … Continue reading →

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THE GIFT

Posted on March 16, 2007 by Charles Lambert

Time for a little poetry after so much unpleasant and utterly disrespectful ranting. This poem, written 33 years ago, was published in a fugitive collection entitled Of Western Limits, containing my work and poems by John Wilkinson, ostensibly written during … Continue reading →

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HEROES

Posted on January 25, 2007 by Charles Lambert

This was first published in Angel Exhaust Ten, edited by Andrew Duncan, its publication solicited, I believe, by John Wilkinson, for which much thanks. It’s an interesting (I hope) hybrid of the Cambridge School and large doses of Lorca. I … Continue reading →

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