Timewatching – Luke Wright’s The Toll
My father’s watch clasps my wrist now. Big shoes to fill, his shoes. The removal of three links slimmed it …
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Et in arcadia ego – Luke Wright’s What I Learned from Johnny Bevan
Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited, published immediately post-war in 1945, elegises landscape and lifestyle. The outsider Charles Ryder is drawn towards …
Blue Dress: Ryan Van Winkle’s The Good Dark
Ryan Van Winkle’s second collection, The Good Dark, opens in style with The Duke in Pines.
Katy Evans-Bush’s Forgive the Language: Essays on Poets and Poetry
It’s a thrill to see posts from Baroque in Hackney collected together in book form. It’s a validation of blogging and, flicking through these essays on Negative Capability, Dylan Thomas, plagiarism and poetic metre, Katy’s significant contribution to British and international poetry becomes clear.
Theatre of Blood – Chris McCabe’s Speculatrix
Oxford’s Golden Cross is a Pizza Express now but the interior decor points to its Tudor pedigree. Outside, the square …
Almost Lost My Mind – Melissa Lee-Houghton’s Beautiful Girls
In London: The Biography, Peter Ackroyd writes that ‘London drives some of its citizens mad. A psychiatric survey in the …
Please mind the gap – Hannah Silva’s Forms of Protest
How I willed Waterloo’s departures board to cascade into its flipping and clacking, although it was impossible to tell whether that first flip …
Beautiful Strange – Chrissy Williams’ Flying Into the Bear
It’s just easier to think in shorthand. Certain brands – political, commercial, or artistic, trigger knee-jerk reactions of love, or …
And God Created Woman – Stephanie Leal’s Metrophobia
As the Authorized Version of the Bible came off the press in 1611, the poet, Aemilia Lanyer, was not prepared …
The whole of the moon – Where Rockets Burn Through, edited by Russell Jones
In the days when video games were packaged in cassette boxes, their lurid covers promised adolescents the sort of ultra-violence …
Poor Rude Lines 