An Olympic Struggle – Brian Turner’s Phantom Noise
Buy Phantom Noise from Bloodaxe Books Today, the Nigerien rower, Hamadou Djibo Issaka, dubbed ‘the sculling sloth’ by the UK’s …
Monthly Archives: July 2012
This scepter’d isle: Andrew Motion’s The Cinder Path
Buy The Cinder Path from Faber and Faber On Andrew Motion‘s last night as Poet Laureate he decided to return …
A Watery Grave: Helen Dunmore’s The Malarkey
Buy The Malarkey from Amazon I’ll never forget waiting for that notorious cutpurses’ cash cow: Rome’s number 64 bus. Locals …
Instagram for the soul – Sam Willetts’ New Light for the Old Dark
There was always something cringeworthy about family snaps. As Philip Larkin says in Lines On A Young Lady’s Photograph Album …
In space no one can hear you scream – Sophie Mayer’s The Private Parts of Girls
Buy The Private Parts of Girls from Salt In Sally Potter’s The Tango Lesson, a character called Sally pitches to …
How I became an Eliot addict – The Waste Land – Faber and Faber – Touch Press
Buy The Waste Land app for iPad I usually buy the new phone, or laptop first and then find out …
Songs of Innocence and Experience – Brian Turner’s Here Bullet
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The smell of the underground – Tobias Hill’s Nocturne in Chrome and Sunset Yellow
Buy Nocturne in Chrome and Sunset Yellow from Salt Forget Eliot’s crowd of commuters flowing over London Bridge. Today’s city …
Alice Oswald’s Memorial
Buy Memorial from Faber and Faber Names assume epic proportions when listed. The Roman Catholic church’s First Eucharistic Prayer seduces …
Through a glass, darkly – Gail Ashton’s The Other Side of Glass
Buy The Other Side of Glass from the Cinnamon Press The heft of the fountain pen really does deliver the …
Poor Rude Lines 