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 …
Category Archives: Cape Poetry
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 …
Instagram for the soul – Sam Willetts’ New Light for the Old Dark
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
Lisa Jardine’s excellent Worldly Goods challenges the view that galleries are secular temples, and that we should approach the tabernacle, the Holy of …
Into Dust – Jean Sprackland’s Sleeping Keys
Yves Marchand’s and Romain Meffre’s photographs of Detroit ended my day at lunchtime. The Sunday supplement they were selling printed …
The last day of our acquaintance – Sharon Olds’ Stag’s Leap
Titian – Venus and Adonis (detail) – (Photo credit: Wikipedia) In his Venus and Adonis, Shakespeare’s goddess attempts to seduce the …
Living in a box – Sean Borodale’s Bee Journal
It began as an idle thrumbing, blending with the shiver of the branches. The path ahead looked the same as …
The Passionate Shepherd – Leontia Flynn’s These Days
Friends were surprised when I said that my narrowboat wouldn’t prove popular with the ladies. ‘What’, they asked ‘about the …
All you need is love – Mark Doty’s Theories and Apparitions
My childhood soft toy, a blue waistcoated Peter Rabbit, is a mess. You might expect him to be threadbare after …
Belfast Child – Leontia Flynn’s Drives
I was standing at the counter of a Belfast tourist office watching as a biro was waved over a map. …
