October 2011
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September 2011
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A poem by Jos Roy →
 (translated from the French by B. Longre)
Sep 21st
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April 2011
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“The Vortex of Being She arrives at the nerve-terminals of experience before we...”
– Paul Stubbs writes about Clarities http://paulstubbspoet.wordpress.com/2011/03/13/the-vortex-of-being/
Apr 30th
“It must be acknowledged that Blandine Longre is a French national writing in...”
– A review of Clarities by Lisa Thatcher http://lisathatcher.wordpress.com/2011/04/25/clarities-blandine-longre-a-review/
Apr 30th
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About 'Clarities'
about Clarities  “…the form creates its own sonic imperatives and bustles along its way in mixtures of half-rhyme, no-rhyme, vowel echoes, assonances and airs. Again, what impresses is the directness that is maintained despite the wordly acrobatics, the intention still present in each thrust and burst of language. From an English language perspective Longre seems to have conjured a poetics...
Apr 22nd
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March 2011
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February 2011
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“Blandine Longre invites us to share an intensity of seeing, comprehending,...”
– Nigel Parke, about Clarities (Black Herald Press, 2010)
Feb 9th
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Cartography
A substantial knot roaming to and fro our true-to-us selves keeps congruous freedom within romping bounds (according to our own distorted topographical laws and free-willing maps) and imparts a tabooless luminance to our most shrouded wanderings – thus wherever our fiery yet fiercely-guarded spheres might stand our umbilical certainties (though numerous they are not) prevent my sinking into a...
Feb 9th