Wild Court

An international poetry journal based in the English Department of King’s College London

Jamie McKendrick

  • Keith Douglas’s ‘Desert Flowers’ and Repetition

    Keith Douglas’s ‘Desert Flowers’ and Repetition

      The below essay appears in Jamie McKendrick’s new book The Foreign Connection: Writing on Poetry, Art & Translation, forthcoming from Legenda this spring.     Jamie McKendrick   Living in the wide landscape are the flowers – Rosenberg I only repeat what you were saying –   The opening of Douglas’s ‘Desert Flowers’ seems…

  • Two Poems by Jamie McKendrick

    Two Poems by Jamie McKendrick

    Something More “Thou must take notice, brother Sancho, that this adventure and those like it are not adventures of islands, but of cross-roads, in which nothing is got except a broken head and an ear the less: have patience, for adventures will present themselves from which I may make you not only a governor but…