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Category Archives: Bloodaxe Books

Rebecca Perry’s Beauty / Beauty

January 6, 2016

The Poetry Book Society have posted another of my reviews on their Poetry Portal, this time on Rebecca Perry’s Beauty …

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Selina Hill’s Jutland and Sarah Howe’s Loop of Jade

November 19, 2015

The next two of my T S Eliot Prize reviews were posted on the Poetry Book Society’s Poetry Portal today. …

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Tracey Herd’s Not in This World and the T.S. Eliot Prize

November 7, 2015

The Poetry Book Society has posted the next of my T. S. Eliot Prize reviews on the Poetry Bookshop online. …

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Land of Confusion: Heather Phillipson’s INSTANT-fLEX 718

December 17, 2014

Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock was my first encounter zeugma. Blink and you miss it. Belinda, our flaky heroine, applies war-paint for …

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Video Games: Vidyan Ravinthiran’s Grun-tu-molani

October 15, 2014

Lisa Jardine’s excellent Worldly Goods challenges the view that galleries are secular temples, and that we should approach the tabernacle, the Holy of …

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Not Fade Away – Nikola Madzirov’s Remnants of Another Age

September 22, 2013

My great-grandfather, who hung through my childhood at the centre of a shrine tended by my great-aunt, now hangs in …

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Robert Wrigley’s Soundings on the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival Blog

September 7, 2013

The Poetry Trust’s Aldeburgh Poetry Festival Blog has updated with a close reading of Robert Wrigley’s Soundings, and you can …

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Warm Leatherette: Robert Wrigley’s The Church of Omnivorous Light

July 22, 2013

The Church of Omnivorous Light, Robert Wrigley’s first UK publication, spans a lifetime’s writing and nine collections. At times, I …

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Dancing in the Dhark – Imtiaz Dharker’s Leaving Fingerprints

August 7, 2012

Buy Leaving Fingerprints from Amazon On Berlin’s Bernauer Straße the wheat around The Chapel of Reconciliation was tanning in the summer …

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An Olympic Struggle – Brian Turner’s Phantom Noise

July 31, 2012

Buy Phantom Noise from Bloodaxe Books Today, the Nigerien rower, Hamadou Djibo Issaka, dubbed ‘the sculling sloth’ by the UK’s …

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