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Featured image of Sunshine (Shortlisted, 2016 Costa Poetry Award)

Sunshine (Shortlisted, 2016 Costa Poetry Award)

“This book is gonna be a killer. It’s gonna suck me dry, / suck me white, suck my insides out and    leave me hollow and high.” (“And All the Things That We Could Do I Face Today”) A standard literary trope is to create expectations and defy them. So, to a seasoned reader, a Read More

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Let Them Eat Chaos (Shortlisted, 2016 Costa Poetry Award)

Kate Tempest’s latest publication, Let Them Eat Chaos, comprises of a single long-poem which winds its way through seven individuals’ lives, each at 4:18am in London. On the title page there is a short and simple disclaimer: “This poem was written to be read aloud”. As a reader, you may have a nagging feeling that Read More

Featured image of 40 Sonnets (Winner of the 2015 Costa Poetry Award & shortlisted for the 2015 TS Eliot Prize for Poetry)

40 Sonnets (Winner of the 2015 Costa Poetry Award & shortlisted for the 2015 TS Eliot Prize for Poetry)

From one son of Dundee to another, Don Paterson, allow me to commend this finely wrought collection – it pulls off something quietly virtuoso that reads keen, true and varied. I sensed something redeeming and intimate about this work, so forgive me if I contrive this review as something like an open letter. This does Read More

Featured image of Talking Dead (Shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Poetry Award)

Talking Dead (Shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Poetry Award)

Neil Rollinson has published three collections of poetry before Talking Dead, and is a past recipient of a Cholmondeley Award from the Society of Authors. He has also garnered a reputation for being polemical. His case is arguably quite similar to that of Henry Miller, who is often misinterpreted as a misogynist purveyor of smut. Read More

Featured image of The Observances (Shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Poetry Award)

The Observances (Shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Poetry Award)

The Observances of Kate Miller’s debut collection are more than observations, more than watchfulness; they are imbued with an appreciation of ritual, whether human or, in nature, a ritual-like patterning. Such is her acute scrutiny that for much of the time the poet erases herself, willingly passive in a world intensely experienced. The first two Read More

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