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Blue Dress: Ryan Van Winkle’s The Good Dark

April 10, 2016

Ryan Van Winkle’s second collection, The Good Dark, opens in style with The Duke in Pines.

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Katy Evans-Bush’s Forgive the Language: Essays on Poets and Poetry

March 29, 2016

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.

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Helena Nelson’s How (Not) to Get your Poetry Published

March 6, 2016

You’ve never seen a soul playing football. You never read about it. You are unaware of its rules, or even of the …

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Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors: Tamar Yoseloff’s A Formula For Night: New and Selected Poems

February 20, 2016

Damien Hirst, ‘For the Love of God’, 2007, platinum, diamonds and human teeth, 171, 127, 190 mm (photo credit: Ilona Gaynor) …

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Claudia Rankine’s Citizen

January 8, 2016

My final review for the TS Eliot Prize is now live on the Poety Book Society’s Poetry Portal – and what a …

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Rebecca Perry’s Beauty / Beauty

January 6, 2016

The Poetry Book Society have posted another of my reviews on their Poetry Portal, this time on Rebecca Perry’s Beauty …

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The Poetry Trust

December 29, 2015

Have you visited the Poetry Trust’s website recently? In my opinion, it showcases the democratic internationalism of the Trust’s vision …

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Loneliness is a gun – Todd Swift’s The Ministry of Emergency Situations: Selected Poems

December 22, 2015

Loneliness is a gun The loudest silence in your day dying to meet you The cassettes my dad collected with …

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Chrissie Gittins’ Professor Heger’s Daughter

December 19, 2015

When the British Library published Love Letters: 2000 Years of Romance in 2012, national attention was drawn to 4 letters written …

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Sean O’Brien’s The Beautiful Librarians & Don Paterson’s 40 Sonnets

December 13, 2015

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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