Ian Duhig’s ‘The Blind Roadmaker’
This review was commissioned for the T.S. Eliot Prize newsletter and is reprinted with kind permission. This review was commissioned for the T.S. …
Category Archives: Picador Poetry
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 …
Rachael Boast’s Void Studies
I am honoured to have been asked to review the titles shortlisted for the 2016 TS Eliot Prize by the …
Sean O’Brien’s The Beautiful Librarians & Don Paterson’s 40 Sonnets
A couple more of my reviews of T.S. Eliot prize shortlisted collections have been posted on the Poetry Book Society’s …
Among Angels – Kate Tempest’s Brand New Ancients
In the Old Testament, it was important to treat guests right – you could never be sure who they really were. …
I fought the law – Colette Bryce’s The Whole & Rain-domed Universe
Standing in front of an officer of the law wearing nothing but pants is a sobering experience and, even when …
Living Doll – Robin Robertson’s Hill of Doors
For reasons of economy, our hair was cut in the kitchen with a bowl and scissors. Well, until a slip …
Ruined in a day – Jacob Polley’s The Havocs
Alan Bennett‘s new play, People, closes with the line ‘Let lost be lost. Let gone be gone, and not fetched back.’ …
I am a Camera – Paul Farley’s The Dark Film
I was content to sit on the pebbles, lit by the heatless fluorescence of the winter sun and enjoying the …
This must be underwater love – Richard Meier’s Misadventure
Cleaning the roof of my narrowboat one morning, I slipped and cartwheeled into the Thames. Despite my love of rivers, …
Poor Rude Lines 