http://tightropebooks.com/the-grammar-of-distance-ian-burgham/ Support the Upstarts! Wed, 02 Nov 2011 17:12:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://tightropebooks.com/the-grammar-of-distance-ian-burgham/comment-page-1/#comment-209 Perks | Wed, 04 May 2011 18:38:41 +0000 http://tightropebooks.com/?p=521#comment-209 [...] I also scored Lenny Bruce is Dead- this one was for Sean, who loves Jonathan Goldstein possibly more than he loves me – as well as Winterkill by Catherine Graham and  Ian Burgham‘s The Grammar of Distance. [...] [...] I also scored Lenny Bruce is Dead- this one was for Sean, who loves Jonathan Goldstein possibly more than he loves me – as well as Winterkill by Catherine Graham and  Ian Burgham‘s The Grammar of Distance. [...]

]]> http://tightropebooks.com/the-grammar-of-distance-ian-burgham/comment-page-1/#comment-68 April 27: You’ll never get to see the poetry love gun « The Art Bar Poetry Series Mon, 06 Dec 2010 01:48:17 +0000 http://tightropebooks.com/?p=521#comment-68 [...] Ian Burgham said he was making a point to pause after his epigraphs so his poems wouldn’t be confused with the work of Petrarch, W.H. Auden and Rilke, adding it wouldn’t be that bad if he was. Many of his poems did carry the unmistakable flavour of Scotland, where he lived for a number of years. Scotland was often the subject of his pieces, along with sibling confessions, ancestral tragedies, would-be lost loves, the “deep weight of the present” and other heavy loads carried by and between people. [...] [...] Ian Burgham said he was making a point to pause after his epigraphs so his poems wouldn’t be confused with the work of Petrarch, W.H. Auden and Rilke, adding it wouldn’t be that bad if he was. Many of his poems did carry the unmistakable flavour of Scotland, where he lived for a number of years. Scotland was often the subject of his pieces, along with sibling confessions, ancestral tragedies, would-be lost loves, the “deep weight of the present” and other heavy loads carried by and between people. [...]

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