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Category Archives: Picador Poetry

Ian Duhig’s ‘The Blind Roadmaker’

February 2, 2017

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. …

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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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Rachael Boast’s Void Studies

December 3, 2016

I am honoured to have been asked to review the titles shortlisted for the 2016 TS Eliot Prize by the …

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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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Among Angels – Kate Tempest’s Brand New Ancients

January 21, 2015

In the Old Testament, it was important to treat guests right – you could never be sure who they really were. …

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I fought the law – Colette Bryce’s The Whole & Rain-domed Universe

August 15, 2014

Standing in front of an officer of the law wearing nothing but pants is a sobering experience and, even when …

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Living Doll – Robin Robertson’s Hill of Doors

October 21, 2013

For reasons of economy, our hair was cut in the kitchen with a bowl and scissors. Well, until a slip …

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Ruined in a day – Jacob Polley’s The Havocs

December 20, 2012

Alan Bennett‘s new play, People, closes with the line ‘Let lost be lost. Let gone be gone, and not fetched back.’ …

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I am a Camera – Paul Farley’s The Dark Film

December 15, 2012

I was content to sit on the pebbles, lit by the heatless fluorescence of the winter sun and enjoying the …

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This must be underwater love – Richard Meier’s Misadventure

December 3, 2012

Cleaning the roof of my narrowboat one morning, I slipped and cartwheeled into the Thames. Despite my love of rivers, …

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