Wednesday, 31 August 2011

Michael Schmidt on 'Classics'

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The word 'classic' has specific meanings and implications, none of them to do primarily with popularity or range of appeal. Pengui...
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Monday, 29 August 2011

Will Eaves on William Letford's 'Sunday, with the television off.'

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Sunday, with the television off. by William Letford I think of the future. My death bed. I imagine the man I will be. Then I pay that ma...
Friday, 26 August 2011

David Yezzi on Rory Waterman's 'The Lake'

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The Lake by Rory Waterman Mid-May now, and the hawthorns have started foaming and stinking. They glow under clear night sky. The car-pa...
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Wednesday, 24 August 2011

Our readers write

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A bear disapproves of Pound's middle period. Welcome to 'Our readers write', where we throw out a question related to poetry...
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Monday, 22 August 2011

Henry King on Evan Jones's 'Little Notes On Painting'

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Little Notes On Painting by Evan Jones Take a Spanish painter and put him in Paris. Take a Greek painter and put him in Madrid. Take a Q...
Friday, 19 August 2011

Helen Tookey on Lucy Tunstall's 'Aunt Jane and the Scholar'

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Aunt Jane and the Scholar by Lucy Tunstall In 1956, or thereabouts, Aunt Jane fell in love with a beautiful scholar from the subcontine...
Wednesday, 17 August 2011

Oli Hazzard on Mina Gorji's 'Forbidden Fruit'

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Forbidden Fruit by Mina Gorji My first batch of Poplar-cap, – lightly fried, on toast, made me hesitate. Dangers of the delicate: t...
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