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Category Archives: Faber and Faber

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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Sean O’Brien’s The Beautiful Librarians & Don Paterson’s 40 Sonnets

December 13, 2015

A couple more of my reviews of T.S. Eliot prize shortlisted collections have been posted on the Poetry Book Society’s …

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Bullet in the Head – Frederick Seidel’s Nice Weather

July 16, 2014

Last summer was filled with the poetry of Terrance Hayes and notably with his Friday: Poem. Like the outrageous conceits of Donne’s …

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The child is grown, the dream is gone – Hugo Williams’ West End Final

March 2, 2013

Twice a day, I studied the cigarette stubber riveted to the melamine back of the bus seat. Ash threw the …

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Take up your cross and follow me – Andrew Motion’s The Customs House

November 26, 2012

If you’re ever on the A34 near Basingstoke, then consider stopping at Burghclere. The main road is unchanged since painted …

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Ecce Homo – Julia Copus’ The World’s Two Smallest Humans

August 22, 2012

Buy The World’s Two Smallest Humans from Faber When I saw Mark Wallinger’s Ecce Homo (1999) dwarfed by Trafalgar Square’s scale and chutzpah, …

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Braiding a windowpane – Don Paterson’s Rain

August 5, 2012

Buy Rain from Faber and Faber A friend of mine who was born and bred in Reading, a place whose …

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This scepter’d isle: Andrew Motion’s The Cinder Path

July 30, 2012

Buy The Cinder Path from Faber and Faber On Andrew Motion‘s last night as Poet Laureate he decided to return …

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How I became an Eliot addict – The Waste Land – Faber and Faber – Touch Press

July 24, 2012

Buy The Waste Land app for iPad I usually buy the new phone, or laptop first and then find out …

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Alice Oswald’s Memorial

July 21, 2012

Buy Memorial from Faber and Faber Names assume epic proportions when listed. The Roman Catholic church’s First Eucharistic Prayer seduces …

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