New Dawn Fades – Matt Merritt’s Making the Most of the Light
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Dancing in the Dhark – Imtiaz Dharker’s Leaving Fingerprints
Buy Leaving Fingerprints from Amazon On Berlin’s Bernauer Straße the wheat around The Chapel of Reconciliation was tanning in the summer …
Braiding a windowpane – Don Paterson’s Rain
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An Olympic Struggle – Brian Turner’s Phantom Noise
Buy Phantom Noise from Bloodaxe Books Today, the Nigerien rower, Hamadou Djibo Issaka, dubbed ‘the sculling sloth’ by the UK’s …
This scepter’d isle: Andrew Motion’s The Cinder Path
Buy The Cinder Path from Faber and Faber On Andrew Motion‘s last night as Poet Laureate he decided to return …
A Watery Grave: Helen Dunmore’s The Malarkey
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Instagram for the soul – Sam Willetts’ New Light for the Old Dark
There was always something cringeworthy about family snaps. As Philip Larkin says in Lines On A Young Lady’s Photograph Album …
In space no one can hear you scream – Sophie Mayer’s The Private Parts of Girls
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How I became an Eliot addict – The Waste Land – Faber and Faber – Touch Press
Buy The Waste Land app for iPad I usually buy the new phone, or laptop first and then find out …
Songs of Innocence and Experience – Brian Turner’s Here Bullet
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