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Category Archives: Cape Poetry

The 2016 T.S. Eliot Prize

January 16, 2017

For various reasons, 2016 was not much of a year for reading, or reviewing poetry. So, the experience of reviewing …

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Mark Doty’s Deep Lane and the T S Eliot Prize, 2015

October 29, 2015

Mark Doty‘s latest, Deep Lane, is truly exceptional. Poetry can, of course, be any number of things but some of …

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Instagram for the soul – Sam Willetts’ New Light for the Old Dark

December 28, 2014

Originally posted on Poor Rude Lines:
Robin Redbreast There was always something cringeworthy about family snaps. As Philip Larkin says in Lines…

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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Into Dust – Jean Sprackland’s Sleeping Keys

December 13, 2013

Yves Marchand’s and Romain Meffre’s photographs of Detroit ended my day at lunchtime. The Sunday supplement they were selling printed …

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The last day of our acquaintance – Sharon Olds’ Stag’s Leap

January 14, 2013

Titian – Venus and Adonis (detail) – (Photo credit: Wikipedia) In his Venus and Adonis, Shakespeare’s goddess attempts to seduce the …

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Living in a box – Sean Borodale’s Bee Journal

January 3, 2013

It began as an idle thrumbing, blending with the shiver of the branches. The path ahead looked the same as …

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The Passionate Shepherd – Leontia Flynn’s These Days

November 4, 2012

Friends were surprised when I said that my narrowboat wouldn’t prove popular with the ladies. ‘What’, they asked ‘about the …

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All you need is love – Mark Doty’s Theories and Apparitions

October 28, 2012

My childhood soft toy, a blue waistcoated Peter Rabbit, is a mess. You might expect him to be threadbare after …

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Belfast Child – Leontia Flynn’s Drives

October 17, 2012

I was standing at the counter of a Belfast tourist office watching as a biro was waved over a map. …

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