Not Fade Away – Nikola Madzirov’s Remnants of Another Age
My great-grandfather, who hung through my childhood at the centre of a shrine tended by my great-aunt, now hangs in …
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Run with the dogs tonight – Luke Samuel Yates’ The pair of scissors that could cut anything
Ann Summers had nothing on our neighbour’s washing line. All the usual flimsy suspects were pegged up flaccid in a …
Robert Wrigley’s Soundings on the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival Blog
The Poetry Trust’s Aldeburgh Poetry Festival Blog has updated with a close reading of Robert Wrigley’s Soundings, and you can …
Danse Macabre – Katha Pollitt’s The Mind-Body Problem
As we stood filling the ashtray, a whey-faced seminarian dispensed advice about the forthcoming term at Rome’s Gregorian University. I …
Voulez-vous coucher avec moi? Shazea Quraishi’s The Courtesans Reply
When I admit to reading almost nothing in translation, people are unimpressed, and I admit it: they have a good …
The Drowners – Kim Moore’s If We Could Speak Like Wolves
I eventually looked through the bedroom window, towards the source of the noise, and a ghost, street lit in Thames …
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 …
Full fathom five – Richie McCaffery’s Spinning Plates
On clearing my great aunt’s house, my parents presented me with her ACME Thunderer. She was a teacher from the …
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 …
Warm Leatherette: Robert Wrigley’s The Church of Omnivorous Light
The Church of Omnivorous Light, Robert Wrigley’s first UK publication, spans a lifetime’s writing and nine collections. At times, I …
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