A terrible case of the shrinks – AF Harrold’s Logic and the Heart
Buy Logic and the Heart from Two Rivers Press Being There, the second poem in the collection, is a horrifying …
Monthly Archives: July 2012
The vibrator in the drawer – Leontia Flynn’s Profit and Loss
Buy Profit and Loss from Cape Poetry There is something uncanny about houses. Especially other people’s and especially shared …
Shifting Sands: Jo Shapcott’s Of Mutability
Buy Of Mutability from Faber and Faber Even buildings built on the solid rock of the Eternal City sink with …
Wendy Cope – Family Values
Buy Family Values from Faber and Faber I’ve seen someone recoil from Wendy Cope’s Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis as …
Shakespeare’s Sonnets – Faber and Faber – Arden – Touch Press
Buy The Sonnets for iPad I’ve been tidying the bookshelves today, flicking through my collection and finding enclosures that raise …
Tom Paulin – Love’s Bonfire
I selected this post to be featured on my blog’s page at Poetry Blogs. Buy Love’s Bonfire direct from Faber …
Katharine Towers – the floating man
Buy the floating man from Picador Buy the Tallis Scholars’ recording of Allegri’s Miserere Even plumbed through a car radio …
Bernard O’Donoghue – Farmers Cross
Buy Farmers Cross from Faber The Divine Office, The Breviary, is a book endowed with magical powers. Take a friend …
Craig Raine – How Snow Falls
Buy How Snow Falls from Atlantic Books ‘I Remember My Mother Dying’, the second poem in this collection, is forensic …
World Book Night
No collections of poetry are being given out on World Book Night 2012 – I guess that, once Heaney and …
Poor Rude Lines 