Sin Cycle, a new poetry sequence from Peter Kenny
Epigraphs, we’re told, are risky – they have a habit of upstaging the poem that follows. But the quote from William Blake is […]
Category: Close readings
Recent reading: Hugh Dunkerley & Antony Mair
OK, so July wasn’t a prolific blogging month for me but I did an awful lot of gardening (well, watering), singing (in Westminster […]
Andrew McMillan’s ‘Physical’
Even though we have NO bookshelves at the moment and about 40 boxes of books we can’t unpack, I had a bit of […]
The Reading List, week 11 – Clare Best’s ‘Cell’
It seems my blog posts of ‘micro reviews’ have set some sort of trend – who’d have thought? Anyway, I haven’t posted one for […]
The Reading List week 9: Malone, Maitreyabandhu, Man
This week, three books by men, all with names starting with M, all with (pretty much) monochrome cover art and three of the […]
The Reading List, week 5: McVety, Konig, James
Right now my reading material consists mainly of kitchen brochures, legal house-moving gumph and internet research on macerator toilets and whether you need planning […]
The Reading List, week 1
In the first week of my ‘read a poetry book a day’ quest I actually managed five books rather than seven, but I […]
Stephen Bone’s ‘In The Cinema’
I wanted to say how much I’ve enjoyed Stephen Bone‘s first collection, In The Cinema, just out from Playdead Press. Moving images, […]
Isabel Palmer’s ‘Ground Signs’
One of the interesting things about the Poetry Book Fair in September was seeing poetry pamphlets and books from different publishers side by […]
Workshop report – the T S Eliot Prize shortlisted collections
Tonight it’s that lovely annual poets’ jamboree, the T S Eliot Prize readings at the Royal Festival Hall. This year I thought it […]