2026 Nobel Prize in Literature to Anne Carson

Canadian poet, essayist and translator Anne Carson has been awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Literature.

Carson, 76, is celebrated for works that often cross the boundaries between poetry, fiction and scholarship.

The Nobel Prize committee said they had selected her "for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature".

From BBC News

Ghosts and Pigeons

Sloe Wine is back and I'm back, like a guy with a new car to show off, only it's Ghosts and Pigeons, my second volume of suspected poetry. The previous one was Day of the Flying Leaves. You can find out all about them at Stephen Moran's Museum of Illusions. Here's a Sloe Wine exclusive scan not previously shared elsewhere, showing "Afro Beeches, I Love You" and "Every Day I Go Out Down".

Scan of pages from an open copy of Ghosts and Pigeons.

"I want to be like Frank O'Hara" by Martina Evans

I’ve never leaned in a club doorway,
my poems in my pocket like Frank.@MartinaEvans6 reads "I want to be like Frank O'Hara." pic.twitter.com/mfB4iNfLNf

— Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation (@BrinkerhoffPoem) May 28, 2020

Audio: Poems by Stephen Moran on Soundcloud

This me reading my own efforts at poetry or in some cases prose poems. The recordings were made with a simple computer headset, the type used for answering phone calls, and Windows Sound Recorder. They are mostly in alphabetic order, apart from some that got moved around by accident and couldn't be put back. Soundcloud calls them tracks, so voila: Tracks. (Stephen)

Paula Meehan reads her poem "The Pattern"

Raymond Carver reading

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love read by the author. This presentation includes an introduction describing how the recording was made. It also continues after the end of the story, with the sound man laughing and saying it was great, and sundry chit-chat. https://beta.prx.org/stories/42401.

Takin' Over the Asylum at the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow

Dannie Abse

Link to poem and further link to obit. in Guardian

Seamus Heaney’s last poem published in Irish national gallery’s anthology

You can read this and see a picture of the painting that inspired it by following the embedded link.

Banks of a Canal
by Seamus Heaney
Gustave Caillebotte, c.1872

Seamus Heaney’s last poem published in Irish gallery’s anthology | Books | The Guardian

Jorge Luis Borges’ 1967-8 Norton Lectures On Poetry (And Everything Else Literary)

"Now, thanks to UbuWeb, you can not only read Borges, but hear him as well. They offer MP3s of Borges’ complete Norton Lectures, which the writer gave at Harvard University in the fall of 1967 and the spring of 1968". List of links to the eight Harvard lectures. It says he was virtually blind and gave the lectures without notes.

A Curse Upon the Poets

Hopewell Rogers - undergroundbooks.org:

[...]

In truth, old dead, I pray you rose again--
I pray you found, once rain and roots renewed
A mustard tree, a house to revel in,
A feast by mulled camaraderie imbued
(Or, if you tired of the gab of men,
A sylvan path, a stream, some solitude).
But if you died who once could hold a pen:
I wish you—cordially—disquietude. 

Uche Ogbuji

Descent

Pishsh!
The pishsh
Snow flies pishsh
Head height, foot flung,
Cold in crouching shock
As mouths Oh! into smiles

[...]

Read on: Link

'Amor en la Zona Colonial' by Natalya Handal | berfrois

"Why can’t you put your tongue in my mouth like you used to?" (Read all)

Southernmost Point Guest House

The name is taken from the first poem in the book. This is a sequel to the earlier volume, Last Night's Dream Corrected, which is also still available.

You can preview the list of contents here. For more information about the contributors and the book and for links to buy, please see http://newshortstories.com/southernmost-point-guest-house/. 

W.B.Yeats Reading His Own Verse

Happy Paddy's day.