ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
The collection "focuses on his war poetry with manuscripts of poems such as 'The General' and 'Died of Wounds' as well as photographs and letters."...
Avoiding the Muse (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
"Write again, write again. I'm not dead yet. I've got weeks and weeks to live," writes Siegfried Sassoon in a letter from France in 1918, made available online today by Oxford University to mark this year's Armistice day.In the letter to his friend Robert Nichols, Sassoon writes "what a pity it is that we can't change places for a fortnight. Here am I, aching for a quiet house to hide...
The Guardian Books Blog (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
It's even harder to adapt to the digital gale sweeping through publishing when big 'old-media' stories about canonical authors are still grabbing everyone's attention William Goldman, who wrote Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, is almost as well known for his coruscating portrait of the movie business, Adventures in the Screen Trade . This, in turn, is celebrated for its dictum about Hollywood executives...
Reading Under the Covers (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
The UK Guardian ran a piece on WWI poet-soldier Siegfried Sassoon: The reluctant hero "Cambridge University is on the verge of securing Siegfried Sassoon's personal papers for posterity – his unpublished poems and letters are more relevant than ever, says Michael Morpurgo" The article includes this undated poem, "just a scrap torn from a notebook": Can I forget the voice of...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
The National Heritage Memorial Fund in Britain said that it would give about $900,000 toward the purchase of Siegfried Sassoon's archives, which includes notebooks he kept during World War I.
Poetry & Poets in Rags (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
News Article Tape: ( ragline )___ MR Zine: Trance (Langston Hughes: In Translation) ___( ragline )___ Guernica: Bolaño Inc. ___( ragline )___ Radio Free Asia: Late Activist's Writings Saved ___( ragline )___ The Guardian: Siegfried Sassoon: The reluctant hero ___( ragline )___ The Guardian: Siegfried Sassoon archive likely to stay in UK after £550,000 award ___( ragline )___ London Review...
Poetry & Poets in Rags (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Dear Poetry Aficionados, IBPC: Poetry & Poets in Rags We proceed by looking back this week. Our first link is to an excellent article on Langston Hughes. Then comes a relook at Roberto Bolaño; the saving of Lin Zhao's writings; and the emergence of more of Siegfried Sassoon's. The first of some remarkable poems come in News at Eleven: new ones from Charles Simic and John Ashbery, followed...
Poetry & Poets in Rags (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
for any of us to face down: our own mortality. The thing that sets [Siegfried] Sassoon's work apart is that he was so connected to his soldiers. One of the previously unpublished poems in this collection provides an account of that connection, and of the wrongs Sassoon felt were being dished out to his men: Can I forget the voice of one who cried from The Guardian: Siegfried Sassoon: The reluctant...
An Awfully Big Blog Adventure (Free subscription) | 08/26/2009
Many, many years ago I lost count of how many books I have. I only know that I don't have anything like enough bookshelves to keep them on. And of course I keep on acquiring the things. In only the last week, the tally runs somehing like this: A secondhand copy of the Oxford Book of English Prose, which I couldn't resist and looks such a great book to keep in the car, for those little moments when...
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