For various reasons, 2016 was not much of a year for reading, or reviewing poetry. So, the experience of reviewing the collections shortlisted for the 2016 T.S. Eliot prize was an intense one: a book a week from October to December. Rachael Boast’s Void Studies was the first up and this was a poetry collectionContinue reading “The 2016 T.S. Eliot Prize”
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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.’ It’s easy to sympathise with his heroine, Dorothy, as the fresh pointing, brash signage, public conveniences and gift shop cut the heart from those remote spots which should be wild, mouldering and inaccessible to coachContinue reading “Ruined in a day – Jacob Polley’s The Havocs”
Poor Rude Lines: poetry reviews & recommendations by John Field 