MARGUTTE » Richard Berengarten

On Scorn and Sweetcorn

margutte — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 05:12:20 +0000

STEPHEN WILSON The work of the English poet, Richard Berengarten, is well known for its multicultural perspectives. This essay focuses on his long poem The Manager with particular reference to themes linked to Jewish heritage. It concludes with an analysis…

The Death of Children, Poetry Across Borders

margutte — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 03:02:56 +0000

In March 2026, the Poetry Archive was delighted to launch a very special poetry collection in partnership with the distinguished Cambridge poet, Richard Berengarten. ‘The Death of Children’ features 40 versions of Richard’s original poem, written in English, and now…

The death of children

margutte — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 07:00:17 +0000

RICHARD BERENGARTEN It is the death of children most offends nature and justice. No use asking why. What justice is, nobody comprehends. What punishment can ever make amends? There’s no pretext, excuse or alibi. It is the death of children…

Exploring the links between visual arts and contemporary poetry

margutte — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 06:00:11 +0000

SILVIA PIO (edited by) Collaborations between poets and artists have appeared in Margutte many times. We are glad to introduce another, featuring Richard Berengarten and Geneviève Guétemme, on three of Berengarten’s works. Richard Berengarten is a regular host in Margutte (see…

Prayer, prophecy and poetry: Richard Berengarten’s Changing

margutte — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 06:33:07 +0000

SILVIA PIO The I Ching (Yijing) or Book of Changes is the oldest of the Chinese classics and was originally conceived and compiled as a divination manual, a handbook for fortune tellers. It is believed to be one of the world’s oldest books…

Two poems from The Wine Cup: Twenty-Four Drinking Songs for Tao Yuanming

margutte — Sat, 05 Nov 2022 08:32:33 +0000

RICHARD BERENGARTEN The evening star Hey, we’ve got a guitar. So let’s have a song. Once we’re sozzled we can totter off home. You sang old songs. I strummed on a guitar. We reminisced. We mixed up fact and fable.…

A poem for Ukraine in multiple translations

margutte — Mon, 02 May 2022 06:51:32 +0000

RICHARD BERENGARTEN I wrote this poem in 2020, immediately after hearing Olesya Zdorovetska’s extraordinary and beautiful renderings of poems by ten Ukrainian poets: Iryna Starovoyt, Olech Lysheha, Yury Izdryk, Marianna Kijanowska, Kateryna Babkina, Lyuba Yakimchuk, Yurii Andrukhovych, Halyna Kruk, and Serhiy…

Poetry and Ecology: a panel discussion

margutte — Fri, 03 Dec 2021 14:01:16 +0000

On August 18 2021, the annual Festival of Poetry at Medellín hosted a panel on Poetry and Ecology, hosted by Gloria Chvatal. Participants were Native Canadian poet, Natasha Kanapé Fontaine, co-founder of the Albero Project, English poet Richard Berengarten, and…

Looking Backward for Moving Forward

margutte — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 13:31:45 +0000

PAUL SCOTT DERRICK This offers two bodies of work that have grown from roots planted deep in the ancient Chinese book of wisdom, the I Ching (or Book of Changes). It isn’t my purpose to interpret or to apply any…

Six Tree Poems

margutte — Sun, 26 Sep 2021 14:02:17 +0000

OLGA MARKELOVA 1. That night all the trees in the capital city set out on a crusade – the single-footed, the many-fingered, the curly-canopied and those stripped bald, those stunted and bark-bared, those wire-throttled, and those cemented up to their…