Reposted by jeremy overCarcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 05/03/2025'The wandering, idling, randomised approach, the mindlessness of hanging around, the embrace of entropy – all this is the cri de coeur of his extraordinary book of levity.' Jonathan Wooding on @jeremyover.bsky.social, for The Friend: thefriend.org/article/fourth-walnutthefriend.orgFourth & Walnut | The FriendBy Jeremy Over| The Friend 062
Reposted by jeremy overCarcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 25/02/2025This week our Meet the Author video is by Tom Raworth, writer of Cancer, which is published this month! 📃 Click below to hear Tom read Logbook, one of three sections of Cancer, at San Francisco State University on November 3, 1976. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Mw3...youtube.comMeet the Author: Tom Raworth Discusses CancerYouTube video by Carcanet Press 0115
Reposted by jeremy overCarcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 28/01/2025From the Carcanet blog archive: Ian Brinton's article on Tom Raworth and Elaine Feinstein's poetry magazines, published in 2017. open.substack.com/pub/carcanet...open.substack.comAn Outburst for Tom RaworthIn the picture: Tom Raworth 0105
jeremy over @jeremyover.bsky.social · 13/02/2025Really happy about this. And what a blue blue sky! Thank you @carcanet.bsky.social 0131
Reposted by jeremy overCarcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Join us online at 7pm on Wednesday 26th February to celebrate the launch of Fourth and Walnut by @jeremyover.bsky.social! The event will be hosted by Matthew Welton and will feature readings, discussion & audience Q&A. Book your ticket here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...us02web.zoom.usWelcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Fourth and Walnut by Jeremy Over: Carcanet Book Launch. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.Please join us to celebrate the launch of Fourth and Walnut by Jeremy Over. The reading will be hosted by Matthew Welton. The event will feature readings and discussion, and audience members will have... 2115
Reposted by jeremy overAaron Kent @godzillakent.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Absolutely delighted to return home to post from the brilliant @jeremyover.bsky.social, containing his astounding new book 'Fourth & Walnut'. Jeremy is a wonderful person and poet, and this book, out next month with @carcanet.bsky.social, is Jeremy at his best. 141
Reposted by jeremy overCarcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 09/01/2025🌰Equal parts commonplace book, instruction manual and cheerful vandalism, Fourth & Walnut by Jeremy Over (jeremyover.bsky.social) is absurdly joyful, gathering words from a range of writers and artists, erasing some and fooling with others. www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/inde... 251
Reposted by jeremy overCarcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 09/01/2025Say hello to our January - February titles! ☁️ All our books published in January and February can be pre-ordered from the Carcanet site using the code JNFB2025 for 20% off and free UK P&P. www.carcanet.co.uk 1226
![ADVICE TO A YOUNG POET
"There is only one way. Go within yourself. Explore what is calling you to write; check whether it is rooted in the deepest part of your heart, admit to yourself whether you would have to die if you were not able to write. This above all: ask yourself in the quietest hour of your night: must I write? Dig deep within yourself for the truth. And if the answer is yes, if you can reply clearly with a simple I must then build your life upon this [...] To feel that one could live without writing is enough of a sign that one should not.'
Rilke (Letter to a Young Poet)
'When a great and unique soul speaks the small ones must remain silent'
Franz Kappus (Rilke's 'Young Poet')
Dear Small Ones,
Be careful with Rilke. In the quietest hour of your night, in particular, don't listen to him. And don't join the Austrian army just yet. Try and get back to sleep and don't drink so much black tea tomorrow. When the day finally breaks, listen instead to James Broughton (or was it Ted Shawn or the Grateful Dead - does it really matter?): 'When in doubt, twirl'.
Then to Gaston Bachelard:
'What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak... It was born in the moments when we accumulated silent things within us. The brook will nonetheless teach you to speak, in spite of sorrows and memories, it will teach you euphoria through euphuism, energy through the poem. It will repeat incessantly some beautiful, round word which rolls over rocks.
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