Knives out – Matthew Stewart’s The Knives of Villalejo
Our Gothic dopplegängers suppress our unease. Conveniently externalised, Mr Hyde and Victor’s creature stalk the margins. We reassure ourselves that the …
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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. …
Vahni Capildeo’s Measures of Expatriation
This review was commissioned for the T.S. Eliot Prize newsletter and is reprinted with kind permission. Vahni Capildeo’s Forward Prize …
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 …
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 …
Les Murray’s Waiting for the Past
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 …
Tim Liardet’s The World Before Snow
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 …
Selina Hill’s Jutland and Sarah Howe’s Loop of Jade
The next two of my T S Eliot Prize reviews were posted on the Poetry Book Society’s Poetry Portal today. …
The Scottish Poetry Library needs your money
Byron rowed his own gondola to the island of San Lazzaro to learn Armenian but, standing in the monastery’s climate-controlled manuscript …
Poor Rude Lines 