It’s a thrill to see posts from Baroque in Hackney collected together in book form. It’s a validation of blogging and, flicking through these essays on Negative Capability, Dylan Thomas, plagiarism and poetic metre, Katy’s significant contribution to British and international poetry becomes clear.
You’ve never seen a soul playing football. You never read about it. You are unaware of its rules, or even of the …
Damien Hirst, ‘For the Love of God’, 2007, platinum, diamonds and human teeth, 171, 127, 190 mm (photo credit: Ilona Gaynor) …
My final review for the TS Eliot Prize is now live on the Poety Book Society’s Poetry Portal – and what a …
The Poetry Book Society have posted another of my reviews on their Poetry Portal, this time on Rebecca Perry’s Beauty …
Have you visited the Poetry Trust’s website recently? In my opinion, it showcases the democratic internationalism of the Trust’s vision …
Loneliness is a gun The loudest silence in your day dying to meet you The cassettes my dad collected with …
When the British Library published Love Letters: 2000 Years of Romance in 2012, national attention was drawn to 4 letters written …
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 latest, Waiting for the Past, has been short-listed for the T.S. Eliot Prize. The Poetry Book Society have posted my …
