Lust for Life – Charles Lang’s The Oasis
My three-year-old daughter accompanied me to John Lewis (though it would be more accurate to say that I accompanied her.) …
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Richard Scott – That Broke into Shining Crystals
Sometimes books rewire the brain. Even as you read, you know already that, by the time you’re done, you’ll be …
Richard Meier’s After the Miracle
Broad Street was in summer mode: conga lines of language students sporting identical backpacks following the sign of the brolly …
In Bloom – Bernard O’Donoghue’s The Anchorage
Reading Bernard O’Donoghue’s Farmers Cross in 2012, it was the poem ‘Vocation’ that caught my eye. The speaker considers a …
Poor Rude Lines 