Ian Duhig’s ‘The Blind Roadmaker’
This review was commissioned for the T.S. Eliot Prize newsletter and is reprinted with kind permission. This review was commissioned for the T.S. …
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Vahni Capildeo’s Measures of Expatriation
This review was commissioned for the T.S. Eliot Prize newsletter and is reprinted with kind permission. Vahni Capildeo’s Forward Prize …
The 2016 T.S. Eliot Prize
For various reasons, 2016 was not much of a year for reading, or reviewing poetry. So, the experience of reviewing …
Mr Disco – Robin Houghton’s The Great Vowel Shift
I sometimes recollect my final visit to a nightclub, where I now hear the passing bells of time’s Technics decks, not the …
Et in arcadia ego – Luke Wright’s What I Learned from Johnny Bevan
Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited, published immediately post-war in 1945, elegises landscape and lifestyle. The outsider Charles Ryder is drawn towards …
Rachael Boast’s Void Studies
I am honoured to have been asked to review the titles shortlisted for the 2016 TS Eliot Prize by the …
I’m a Bitch – David Kinloch’s Some Women
This morning, I’m thrilled to fill the guest blogger slot on Anthony Wilson’s poetry blog, where I write about the …
Blue Dress: Ryan Van Winkle’s The Good Dark
Ryan Van Winkle’s second collection, The Good Dark, opens in style with The Duke in Pines.
Katy Evans-Bush’s Forgive the Language: Essays on Poets and Poetry
It’s a thrill to see posts from Baroque in Hackney collected together in book form. It’s a validation of blogging and, flicking through these essays on Negative Capability, Dylan Thomas, plagiarism and poetic metre, Katy’s significant contribution to British and international poetry becomes clear.
Helena Nelson’s How (Not) to Get your Poetry Published
You’ve never seen a soul playing football. You never read about it. You are unaware of its rules, or even of the …
