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Vahni Capildeo’s Measures of Expatriation

January 19, 2017

This review was commissioned for the T.S. Eliot Prize newsletter and is reprinted with kind permission. Vahni Capildeo’s Forward Prize …

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Les Murray’s Waiting for the Past

December 3, 2015

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 …

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Tim Liardet’s The World Before Snow

November 29, 2015

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 …

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Jane Yeh’s The Ninjas

December 22, 2014

Wandering Stirling Castle this summer, I kept my camera(phone) holstered. In a baronial hall, holidaymakers queued to pose in a high-backed-chair-cum …

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Alison Brackenbury’s Bath cubes on the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival Blog

October 30, 2013

I’ve been writing little close readings of poems by the poets featuring in the twenty-fifth Aldeburgh Poetry Festival since August, …

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Made of Stone – Kay Ryan’s Odd Blocks

July 15, 2013

When my dad claimed that our cat was a bit stupid, I simmered with fury at his betrayal of a …

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I am the invisible man – Olivia McCannon’s Exactly My Own Length

November 12, 2012

Rush hour is cruel to those going nowhere. To stand frozen as the city wheels about, reconfiguring itself for dinners …

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Breathless – David Morley’s Enchantment

November 1, 2012

Gerard Manley Hopkins was snotty about Oxford’s outskirts. In Duns Scotus’s Oxford, he reserves his praise for the ivory towers …

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No Gypsy Wedding – David Morley’s The Invisible Kings

September 9, 2012

Donkeys were still hitched to lamp-posts in County Limerick in the ’80s and our village was the sort of place …

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