Category Archives: poem

More on Helms

Posted on July 6, 2008 by Charles Lambert

Jonathan William wrote a poem for Jesse Helms. Here it is: POEM BEGINNING WITH FIVE WORDS BYGERARD MANLEY HOPKINS glory be to godfor jesse helms jessehates fags jesse hatesniggers jesse hates modernart now that onethinks about it jesse’sjust like most … 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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Under the Day

Posted on January 12, 2008 by Charles Lambert

This poem comes from a collection, entitled Creative Accounting, written when the term still had the capacity to amuse or shock. After Enron etc., that’s clearly no longer the case, but it still goes some way towards indicating what the … Continue reading →

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Memory

Posted on January 11, 2008 by Charles Lambert

This is the second poem I’m planning to commit to memory as a whole, instead of in half-recalled scraps. It also, maybe incidentally, acts as a corrective to the over-devout tones of the final verse of my first choice, by … Continue reading →

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Memory

Posted on January 1, 2008 by Charles Lambert

I don’t do New Year’s resolutions as a rule. Why set yourself up to be disappointed? Isn’t that the world’s job? But, watching The History Boys a few days ago (see earlier post) made me realise how few poems I … Continue reading →

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For I will consider my cat…. (Tilly)

Posted on November 18, 2007 by Charles Lambert

For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry.For he is the servant of the Living God duly and daily serving him.For at the first glance of the glory of God in the East he worships in his way.For this is done … Continue reading →

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Squabbling over kippers

Posted on November 15, 2007 by Charles Lambert

Finally, a story that combines great literature, down-and-dirty sex with minors, gratuitous violence and, er, cultural heritage issues. The house in London in which Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud loved, wrote and fought over smoked fish has been saved from … Continue reading →

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THE GOLDEN FLEECE

Posted on November 2, 2007 by Charles Lambert

This is the third section in the sequence of poems dedicated to the Golden Fleece. If you want to know what happened earlier, click on one and two. CHIRON 1 They’re pushing and shoving to get through the gate, where … Continue reading →

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Haikus

Posted on October 27, 2007 by Charles Lambert

If you’d like to have a T-shirt with this written on it – and who wouldn’t? – click here. Another classic from Threadless T-Shirts.

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I have seen the best minds of my generation…

Posted on October 8, 2007 by Charles Lambert

… run for cover at the threat of very large fines. Like American radio station WBAI, which last week decided not to broadcast Ginsberg’s Howl to celebrate its 50th birthday. More information here. Why let the government censor you when … Continue reading →

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