Issue 18 / Spring 2010
Content:
- Editors' Note
- Lisa Le Feuvre on Failure
- Andrew Causey on Henry Moore
- David Anfam on Dexter Dalwood
- Greg Tate on Afro Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic
- Paul Chan on Henri Michaux
- Cosima Spender and Mougouch Fielding on Arshile Gorky
- Bernard Marcadé on Georges Mathieu
- Anne Ellegood on Collaboration
- Alied Ottevanger on Theo van Doesburg
- Christy Lange talks to Chris Ofili
- Margaret Drabble, Shirin Spencer, Nina Williams, Veronica Gosling, David Page and Louisa Buck
- Poem of the Month
- Michael Rakowitz, Mark Haddon, Andy Holden and Richard Aldrich on a work in the Tate Collection
The British School 17th Century
The Cholmondeley Ladies c. 1600- 1610
Oil on wood
88.6 x 172.3cm
The Cholmondeley Ladies
Ladies with the slender wrists
Ladies with the fine long fingers
Ladies with the painted lips
And the alabaster features
This one in her golden necklace
Propped against the marble pillow
This one in her bony bodice
Silent figure in a mirror
Sister with the bandaged breasts
Staring with her eyes of lead
Sister with the eyes of ice
Dainty from the loss of blood
Sheet pulled tight and bed like granite
Ruff and collar stiff as oak
Infants tightly wrapped in scarlet
Warm with milk and cold as stone
Shove and snigger at the door
From the meagre village crowd
Shovel on the churchyard floor
Strikes, and breaks the frozen ground
Each month, TATE ETC. publishes new poetry by leading poets such as John Burnside, Moniza Alvi, Adam Thorpe, Alice Oswald
and David Harsent who respond to works from the Tate Collection. Subscribe to the Poem of the Month RSS feed.
This February Jean Spackland presents her poem, The Cholmondely Ladies based on the painting of the same name attributed to British School 17th Century. This painting is currently on display in Tate Britain, in 'Tudor and Stuart Portraiture'- Room 2. For the Tate Collection
online, visit www.tate.org.uk/collection.
The Poetry Society is curating this year's selection in the organisation's centenary year. Founded in 1909, the Society is now one of Britain’s most high-profile arts organisations, helping poets and poetry thrive in Britain and beyond. Membership is open to all, though members include many of the UK’s most eminent poets. It publishes the highly-respected journal Poetry Review; and also works to deliver a programme of poetry in education, supporting and developing creativity among young people and communities. Visit http://www.poetrysociety.org.uk for further information.