After the success of Denise Riley’s prizewinning elegiac sequence A Part Song, it was with great anticipation that I opened her new collection Say Something Back. As well as being highly regarded as a poet, Riley has also published various academic works of language and Feminist theory. Say Something Back is her first collection since Read More
There are more than seven words for winter in Greenlandic, and when you have read Nancy Campbell’s Disko Bay you’ll know why. The poet has worked as writer in residence for many ecological institutions and over her career has authored many non-fiction books – including How to Say ‘I Love You’ In Greenlandic: An Arctic Read More
After reading this collection by Alice Oswald, it came as no surprise to learn that following her studies of Classics at Oxford, Oswald trained as a gardener. Plants, flowers, myths and legends are constant threads that run through her poems. She draws much of her inspiration from the River Dart and the folklore of the Read More
Ciarán Carson, one of this year’s contenders for the Forward Prize for Best Collection, has written over twenty works of poetry, memoir, translations and fiction. His poetry collections include Belfast Confetti (1990), which won the Irish Times Irish Literature Prize for Poetry; First Language: Poems (1994), winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize and Breaking Read More