Liane Strauss – Poor Rude Lines: poetry reviews & recommendations by John Field

Woven Song—Liane Strauss’s ‘The Flaws in the Story’

In a world of spoilers, ignorance can be a superpower. And so it was when I visited Sir John Soane’s Museum at 13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London. I had expected a genteel drawing room, the tick of a clock, a clutch of louring canvases… In retrospect, the first clue that something was amiss about thisContinue reading “Woven Song—Liane Strauss’s ‘The Flaws in the Story’”

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 with a Roman Catholic seminarian whose groin was in open rebellion against celibacy, and the groin, it was rumoured, was winning. In the time it took me to get the beers in, he had luredContinue reading “I’ll be your Mirror – Liane Strauss’s Leaving Eden”