Wide Open Space – Vera Pavlova’s If There Is Something to Desire
Wayside shrines, flowers strung up on lampposts with a couple of turns of parcel tape, wither and rot but, once …
Tag Archives: 2010
I’ll be your Mirror – Liane Strauss’s Leaving Eden
It was already an alcohol fuelled night when we arrived at Campo dei Fiori‘s The Drunken Ship. I was out …
Breathless – David Morley’s Enchantment
Gerard Manley Hopkins was snotty about Oxford’s outskirts. In Duns Scotus’s Oxford, he reserves his praise for the ivory towers …
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 …
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 …
Shifting Sands: Jo Shapcott’s Of Mutability
Buy Of Mutability from Faber and Faber Even buildings built on the solid rock of the Eternal City sink with …
Katharine Towers – the floating man
Buy the floating man from Picador Buy the Tallis Scholars’ recording of Allegri’s Miserere Even plumbed through a car radio …
Poor Rude Lines 