Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Matthew Stewart’s Inventing Truth
In the family album there’s a snap of a tiny boy pressing his gift of a Matchbox car into the …
Monthly Archives: August 2012
Looking at the emperor’s new clothes – Glyn Maxwell’s On Poetry
Buy On Poetry from Oberon Books A school friend grasped counterpoint intuitively and had a penchant for writing fugues. He …
Ecce Homo – Julia Copus’ The World’s Two Smallest Humans
Buy The World’s Two Smallest Humans from Faber When I saw Mark Wallinger’s Ecce Homo (1999) dwarfed by Trafalgar Square’s scale and chutzpah, …
The Nightmare of History – Paul Durcan’s The Laughter of Mothers
Buy The Laughter of Mothers from Harvill Secker As the car turned off Bachelors Walk and onto O’Connell Street, my …
Lingerie in London – Me and the Dead by Katy Evans-Bush
Buy Me and the Dead from Salt To live on a narrowboat is to live in a world of either …
The trouble with poetry – how we get teaching it wrong
‘Would anyone care to join me / in flicking a few pebbles in the direction / of teachers who are …
New Dawn Fades – Matt Merritt’s Making the Most of the Light
Buy Troy Town from Arrowhead Press Looking at the turnout for the support act’s set, I’m reminded of a wispy …
Dancing in the Dhark – Imtiaz Dharker’s Leaving Fingerprints
Buy Leaving Fingerprints from Amazon On Berlin’s Bernauer Straße the wheat around The Chapel of Reconciliation was tanning in the summer …
Braiding a windowpane – Don Paterson’s Rain
Buy Rain from Faber and Faber A friend of mine who was born and bred in Reading, a place whose …
Poor Rude Lines 