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A Song of Change

July 22, 2019March 3, 2020 ~ Frank Hudson ~ 1 Comment

I’m going to return to an old favorite of this project, a poet who helped change modern English poetry and yet is largely forgotten: F. S. Flint. Long-time readers (or those of you that have taken a stroll through the archives here) might remember the highlights. Born in 1885 a London slum kid for whom … Continue reading A Song of Change

The Black Riders XXXIX

May 11, 2018 ~ Frank Hudson ~ Leave a comment

In my episodic way here, I’ve touched on the rise of Free Verse in Modernist poetry. Free Verse poetry may still be rhythmic and musical, but it follows no strict meter, nor does it use any rhyme scheme. Now an established tradition, it came to poetry written in English in a non-straightforward way. I think … Continue reading The Black Riders XXXIX

My Poor Bagpipes

April 29, 2018April 29, 2018 ~ Frank Hudson ~ 3 Comments

In search of words to combine with music here, I sometimes find it necessary to translate from other languages. Poetry translation involves following strange paths. Here’s the path I followed to present today’s piece, Jules Laforgue’s “My Poor Bagpipes.”  Throughout this month I’ve been presenting parts of T. S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land”  as part … Continue reading My Poor Bagpipes

Death by Water

April 27, 2020April 27, 2020 ~ Frank Hudson ~ 3 Comments

Long-time readers here will know that the Parlando Project has been performing a section of T. S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land”  each year to celebrate National Poetry Month.*   It’s been a major task, and if one were to listen to all those past sections, you’d get a fair sample of the variety of original music … Continue reading Death by Water

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