OK, so July wasn’t a prolific blogging month for me but I did an awful lot of gardening (well, watering), singing (in Westminster Abbey, dontcha…
Poetry
Category: The Reading List
Intro/bit of a rant etc (skip this if you’d rather go straight to The Poetry stuff) Where has the month gone? (Rhetorical question.) Why am…
At the library I recently picked up Kei Miller’s The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion (Carcanet 2014), and it proved to be…
Even though we have NO bookshelves at the moment and about 40 boxes of books we can’t unpack, I had a bit of a poetry…
First: general ‘how I’m feeling’ stuff, feel free to skip down if you’re short of time Apologies for the silence these last few days. The usual self-employed person’s…
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 a couple…
These pocket-sized reviews have been getting a bit long lately and that’s not good, because I start thinking “do I have time to write a…
This week, three books by men, all with names starting with M, all with (pretty much) monochrome cover art and three of the shortest titles…
All the National Poetry Day euphoria over with and I’m back into the swing of The Reading List this week, and some wonderful reading to…
Only one book to report on in this episode of The Reading List – there seem to be endless admin jobs involved in moving house,…