Review of Victoria Gatehouse’s The Hawthorn Bride
With thanks to the editor, Hilary Menos, for commissioning it, my review of Victoria Gatehouse’s excellent debut full collection, The Hawthorn Bride, is at The Friday Poem today, here. The collection,...
View Article(Other) November reading
Shash Trevett’s debut full collection, The Naming of Names, published by the Poetry Business and available to buy here, follows on from her 2021 pamphlet From a Borrowed Land, with more poems relating...
View ArticlePoem at Atrium – ‘Entertaining’
With thanks to editors Claire Walker and Holly Magill, I’m very pleased to have a poem up at Atrium today, here.
View ArticleBack to Michael Hamburger
It would be remiss of me not to revisit Hamburger before his centenary year ends. I wonder who else has marked it; not even PN Review as far as I can see, a surprising omission given that Carcanet...
View ArticleMy year in haiku
I’ve had a grand total of nine haiku and senryu published this year, which is pitifully few compared to my heyday, but nonetheless represents an increase on last year. I write them so seldom that it’s...
View ArticleDecember reading
What reading I have done this month has principally been on buses, trains and trams. Bus journeys – to and from Doncaster or Sheffield – in particular are ideal for reading poetry collections. Derek...
View ArticleJanuary reading (1)
I’ve started my reading in this new year where I left it in the old, with the American poet Dorianne Laux. I’d first encountered Laux’s poetry back in September, when ‘The Shipfitter’s Wife’ was one of...
View ArticleReview of Gerry Cambridge’s The Ayrshire Nestling
With thanks, as ever, to Hilary Menos and Andy Brodie, and also to Helena Nelson for a helpful point of clarification, my first review of the year is up at The Friday Poem – of Gerry Cambridge’s...
View ArticleJanuary reading (2)
My further exploration of Dorianne Laux’s oeuvre has continued with Only as the Day is Long, her 2019 ‘New and Selected Poems’ (Norton). I’m surprised that no British publisher has brought out an...
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