Sean O’Brien’s The Beautiful Librarians & Don Paterson’s 40 Sonnets
A couple more of my reviews of T.S. Eliot prize shortlisted collections have been posted on the Poetry Book Society’s …
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Les Murray’s Waiting for the Past
Les Murray’s latest, Waiting for the Past, has been short-listed for the T.S. Eliot Prize. The Poetry Book Society have posted my …
Tim Liardet’s The World Before Snow
My review of Tim Liardet’s T.S. Eliot Prize short-listed The World Before Snow is up on The Poetry Book Society’s Poetry Portal. Buy …
Selina Hill’s Jutland and Sarah Howe’s Loop of Jade
The next two of my T S Eliot Prize reviews were posted on the Poetry Book Society’s Poetry Portal today. …
Tracey Herd’s Not in This World and the T.S. Eliot Prize
The Poetry Book Society has posted the next of my T. S. Eliot Prize reviews on the Poetry Bookshop online. …
Dream Attack: Fiona Moore’s Night Letter
I was once awoken in the dead of night by the kitchen knives. Not by the cutlery but the other …
Mark Doty’s Deep Lane and the T S Eliot Prize, 2015
Mark Doty‘s latest, Deep Lane, is truly exceptional. Poetry can, of course, be any number of things but some of …
Another Brick in the Wall: David Harker’s and Tamar Yoseloff’s Nowheres
Even today, an assault on the defensive ditches surrounding Maiden Castle would be challenging, their presence serving as a reminder of our …
Claire Trévien’s and Gareth Prior’s Other Countries: Contemporary Poets Rewiring History
In the anthology’s introduction, Trévien writes that ‘we wanted poems that would make us create new patterns of association in …
Olivia Byard’s The Wilding Eye: New and Selected Poems
Seeing a swan holed below the waterline by a crossbow bolt on my stretch of river, I ran for the phone. …
Poor Rude Lines 