Blue Dress: Ryan Van Winkle’s The Good Dark
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
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.
Helena Nelson’s How (Not) to Get your Poetry Published
You’ve never seen a soul playing football. You never read about it. You are unaware of its rules, or even of the …
Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors: Tamar Yoseloff’s A Formula For Night: New and Selected Poems
Damien Hirst, ‘For the Love of God’, 2007, platinum, diamonds and human teeth, 171, 127, 190 mm (photo credit: Ilona Gaynor) …
Claudia Rankine’s Citizen
My final review for the TS Eliot Prize is now live on the Poety Book Society’s Poetry Portal – and what a …
Rebecca Perry’s Beauty / Beauty
The Poetry Book Society have posted another of my reviews on their Poetry Portal, this time on Rebecca Perry’s Beauty …
The Poetry Trust
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 – Todd Swift’s The Ministry of Emergency Situations: Selected Poems
Loneliness is a gun The loudest silence in your day dying to meet you The cassettes my dad collected with …
Chrissie Gittins’ Professor Heger’s Daughter
When the British Library published Love Letters: 2000 Years of Romance in 2012, national attention was drawn to 4 letters written …
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 …
