In Bloom – Bernard O’Donoghue’s The Anchorage
Reading Bernard O’Donoghue’s Farmers Cross in 2012, it was the poem ‘Vocation’ that caught my eye. The speaker considers a …
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Bullet in the Head – Frederick Seidel’s Nice Weather
Last summer was filled with the poetry of Terrance Hayes and notably with his Friday: Poem. Like the outrageous conceits of Donne’s …
The child is grown, the dream is gone – Hugo Williams’ West End Final
Twice a day, I studied the cigarette stubber riveted to the melamine back of the bus seat. Ash threw the …
Braiding a windowpane – Don Paterson’s Rain
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How I became an Eliot addict – The Waste Land – Faber and Faber – Touch Press
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Alice Oswald’s Memorial
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Shifting Sands: Jo Shapcott’s Of Mutability
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Wendy Cope – Family Values
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Shakespeare’s Sonnets – Faber and Faber – Arden – Touch Press
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Bernard O’Donoghue – Farmers Cross
Buy Farmers Cross from Faber The Divine Office, The Breviary, is a book endowed with magical powers. Take a friend …
Poor Rude Lines 