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Imagined Spaces

How do you cut into what Elizabeth Chakrabarty terms ‘the Trojan horse’ of the essay? Whether it’s lyrical, discursive, inter-medial, associative, reflective, self-reflexive, or something yet undefined, from the outset of Imagined Spaces, the form is as far from the familiar academic expectation as may be dreamt. What then is this literal try, this attempt, Read More

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Solar Bones (Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017)

Mike McCormack (Canongate, 2016), pbk, £8.99   Gail Low

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MIDWINTER (LONGLISTED, 2017 BAILEYS WOMEN’S PRIZE)

I might not have read this novel were it not longlisted for the 2017 Baileys Women’s Prize. The hardcover with its stylised Edward Bawden-like black and red linocut of a rural scene – red sun, red fox, and red blurb byline counterbalanced by the bold black lines of plant life – seemed, well, just a Read More

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The Remedies (Shortlisted, 2016 T S Eliot Poetry Prize)

The American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau wrote, “Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain”. Katharine Towers’ second poetry collection, The Remedies, is a clarion call to a kind of modern day  transcendentalism. She might not wear Read More

Featured image of Hot Milk (Shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize)

Hot Milk (Shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize)

Deborah Levy (Hamish Hamilton, 2016); pbk, £12.99 In an interview given at the time of her previous Man Booker nomination in 2012, Deborah Levy is recorded as saying, “I want to walk my female characters into the centre of my work. They don’t have to be likable but they have to be compelling and complicated.” Well, Read More

Featured image of Measures of Expatriation (Shortlisted, 2016 TS Eliot Poetry Prize; Winner, 2016 Forward Poetry Prizes 2016: Best Collection)

Measures of Expatriation (Shortlisted, 2016 TS Eliot Poetry Prize; Winner, 2016 Forward Poetry Prizes 2016: Best Collection)

It seems self-evident that there are different kinds of poetry but this truism is well worth restating. For readers of the modern lyric whose appeal might lie in the small imagistic fragment, a well-wrought urn of words and music that speaks to a sudden, vital moment of perception as creative renewal (that sudden slant of Read More

Featured image of Merran Gunn on the making of ‘Lullaby’ for The Voyage Out

Merran Gunn on the making of ‘Lullaby’ for The Voyage Out

Featured image of Simon Jenner reading for The Voyage Out

Simon Jenner reading for The Voyage Out

Featured image of Jane Goldman reading for The Voyage Out

Jane Goldman reading for The Voyage Out

Featured image of Beth McDonough reading for The Voyage Out

Beth McDonough reading for The Voyage Out

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