Poetry by Heart
Poetry by Heart is a recitation competition which launches in British schools this month. The competition, funded in part by …
Tag Archives: 2012
Living in a box – Sean Borodale’s Bee Journal
It began as an idle thrumbing, blending with the shiver of the branches. The path ahead looked the same as …
Ruined in a day – Jacob Polley’s The Havocs
Alan Bennett‘s new play, People, closes with the line ‘Let lost be lost. Let gone be gone, and not fetched back.’ …
I am a Camera – Paul Farley’s The Dark Film
I was content to sit on the pebbles, lit by the heatless fluorescence of the winter sun and enjoying the …
This must be underwater love – Richard Meier’s Misadventure
Cleaning the roof of my narrowboat one morning, I slipped and cartwheeled into the Thames. Despite my love of rivers, …
In vino veritas – Matthew Stewart’s Tasting Notes
Only someone who follows no football can understand the feelings of confusion and fear that accompany the convergence of their …
Liberating constraints – Tom Chivers’ Adventures in Form
Reporting back from the Edinburgh International Book Festival, George Szirtes quotes Jackie Kay: “Why do novelists so fear the death of …
Ecce Homo – Julia Copus’ The World’s Two Smallest Humans
Buy The World’s Two Smallest Humans from Faber When I saw Mark Wallinger’s Ecce Homo (1999) dwarfed by Trafalgar Square’s scale and chutzpah, …
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 …
A Watery Grave: Helen Dunmore’s The Malarkey
Buy The Malarkey from Amazon I’ll never forget waiting for that notorious cutpurses’ cash cow: Rome’s number 64 bus. Locals …
Poor Rude Lines 