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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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Vahni Capildeo’s Measures of Expatriation

January 19, 2017

This review was commissioned for the T.S. Eliot Prize newsletter and is reprinted with kind permission. Vahni Capildeo’s Forward Prize …

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Et in arcadia ego – Luke Wright’s What I Learned from Johnny Bevan

December 27, 2016

  Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited, published immediately post-war in 1945, elegises landscape and lifestyle. The outsider Charles Ryder is drawn towards …

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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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Les Murray’s Waiting for the Past

December 3, 2015

Les Murray’s latest, Waiting for the Past, has been short-listed for the T.S. Eliot Prize. The Poetry Book Society have posted my …

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Tim Liardet’s The World Before Snow

November 29, 2015

My review of Tim Liardet’s T.S. Eliot Prize short-listed The World Before Snow  is up on The Poetry Book Society’s Poetry Portal. Buy …

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Selina Hill’s Jutland and Sarah Howe’s Loop of Jade

November 19, 2015

The next two of my T S Eliot Prize reviews were posted on the Poetry Book Society’s Poetry Portal today. …

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The Scottish Poetry Library needs your money

March 9, 2015

Byron rowed his own gondola to the island of San Lazzaro to learn Armenian but, standing in the monastery’s climate-controlled manuscript …

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Dan O’Brien’s War Reporter

April 1, 2014

The Guardian’s coverage of the 2004 Madrid train bombings was the first time that I considered the burden shouldered by …

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