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. …
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. …
For various reasons, 2016 was not much of a year for reading, or reviewing poetry. So, the experience of reviewing …
I am honoured to have been asked to review the titles shortlisted for the 2016 TS Eliot Prize by the …
A couple more of my reviews of T.S. Eliot prize shortlisted collections have been posted on the Poetry Book Society’s …
In the Old Testament, it was important to treat guests right – you could never be sure who they really were. …
Standing in front of an officer of the law wearing nothing but pants is a sobering experience and, even when …
For reasons of economy, our hair was cut in the kitchen with a bowl and scissors. Well, until a slip …
Alan Bennett‘s new play, People, closes with the line ‘Let lost be lost. Let gone be gone, and not fetched back.’ …
I was content to sit on the pebbles, lit by the heatless fluorescence of the winter sun and enjoying the …
Cleaning the roof of my narrowboat one morning, I slipped and cartwheeled into the Thames. Despite my love of rivers, …