Kevin Reid’s Burdlife
Its high pitch and speed makes birdsong feel utterly alien. However, Marcus Coates’s stunning installation, ‘Dawn Chorus‘, closes that distance. …
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Let’s talk about sex, baby – Jennifer Copley’s Some Couples
Suede’s debut single, ‘The Drowners’, enacts a war between Butler’s masculine, strident rhythm guitar and the androgyny of Anderson’s lyrics …
I’m a Bitch – David Kinloch’s Some Women
This morning, I’m thrilled to fill the guest blogger slot on Anthony Wilson’s poetry blog, where I write about the …
Blue Dress: Ryan Van Winkle’s The Good Dark
Ryan Van Winkle’s second collection, The Good Dark, opens in style with The Duke in Pines.
Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors: Tamar Yoseloff’s A Formula For Night: New and Selected Poems
Damien Hirst, ‘For the Love of God’, 2007, platinum, diamonds and human teeth, 171, 127, 190 mm (photo credit: Ilona Gaynor) …
Loneliness is a gun – Todd Swift’s The Ministry of Emergency Situations: Selected Poems
Loneliness is a gun The loudest silence in your day dying to meet you The cassettes my dad collected with …
Chrissie Gittins’ Professor Heger’s Daughter
When the British Library published Love Letters: 2000 Years of Romance in 2012, national attention was drawn to 4 letters written …
Another Brick in the Wall: David Harker’s and Tamar Yoseloff’s Nowheres
Even today, an assault on the defensive ditches surrounding Maiden Castle would be challenging, their presence serving as a reminder of our …
Claire Trévien’s and Gareth Prior’s Other Countries: Contemporary Poets Rewiring History
In the anthology’s introduction, Trévien writes that ‘we wanted poems that would make us create new patterns of association in …
Olivia Byard’s The Wilding Eye: New and Selected Poems
Seeing a swan holed below the waterline by a crossbow bolt on my stretch of river, I ran for the phone. …
Poor Rude Lines 