Mark Doty’s Deep Lane and the T S Eliot Prize, 2015
Mark Doty‘s latest, Deep Lane, is truly exceptional. Poetry can, of course, be any number of things but some of …
Tag Archives: Cape Poetry
The last day of our acquaintance – Sharon Olds’ Stag’s Leap
Titian – Venus and Adonis (detail) – (Photo credit: Wikipedia) In his Venus and Adonis, Shakespeare’s goddess attempts to seduce the …
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 …
All you need is love – Mark Doty’s Theories and Apparitions
My childhood soft toy, a blue waistcoated Peter Rabbit, is a mess. You might expect him to be threadbare after …
Belfast Child – Leontia Flynn’s Drives
I was standing at the counter of a Belfast tourist office watching as a biro was waved over a map. …
Kissing a Saint’s Stomach Lining – Adam Thorpe’s Voluntary
The strangest thing I’ve kissed is a section of stomach lining belonging to the Blessed Ralph Sherwin. He’s an old …
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 …
The vibrator in the drawer – Leontia Flynn’s Profit and Loss
Buy Profit and Loss from Cape Poetry There is something uncanny about houses. Especially other people’s and especially shared …
