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 …
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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 …
Dan O’Brien’s War Reporter
The Guardian’s coverage of the 2004 Madrid train bombings was the first time that I considered the burden shouldered by …
I Predict a Riot – Helen Mort’s Division Street
In Tony Harrison’s v., the Vs sprayed on the Harrison family grave in Holbeck Cemetery, Leeds, ‘are all the versuses …
Almost Lost My Mind – Melissa Lee-Houghton’s Beautiful Girls
In London: The Biography, Peter Ackroyd writes that ‘London drives some of its citizens mad. A psychiatric survey in the …
D. Nurkse’s The Past on the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival Blog
Regular readers will know that I try to avoid dishing out other people’s poems in full. Doing that would hardly …
The shiny new Aldeburgh Poetry Festival Blog
Poor Rude Lines will continue to offer its regular service. However, as Blogger in Residence at this year’s Aldeburgh Poetry …
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