The website of writer and poet Daniel Bennett
'Words sing what mind brings' Jack Kerouac If you want to develop as a human being, never mind a writer, it's probably a good idea to kick any idealisation of the Beats. I've lost count of the number of people who have passed through my life with the appetite for a Beat biography without putting … Continue reading Multi-Media Beats
'Convinced of decrepitude By so many noble certainties of dust, We linger and lower our voices Among the long rows of mausoleums' Buenos Aires is a hybrid sprawl, a city driven by the tension of its tripartite cultures, the European, American and indigenous. In Palermo all the young speak English with dislocating American accents, and … Continue reading Recoleta Cemetery by Jorge Luis Borges
'Cigarette smoke hanging on in the living room. The ship's lights out on the water, dimming. The stars burning holes in the sky. Becoming ash, yes.' - 'Tomorrow' Every poet is a critic, at least if you believe Harold Bloom. In The Anxiety of Influence, he imagined the great poets of the twentieth century wrestling … Continue reading In a Marine Light: the poetry of Raymond Carver
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