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A fragmented inventory of being: Fourteen Ways of Looking by Erin Vincent
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A fragmented inventory of being: Fourteen Ways of Looking by Erin Vincent
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“I don’t know what I’m doing”: Do Not Send Me Out Among Strangers by Joshua Segun-Lean
Having never tried journaling until now, I can’t say if I’m doing a good job. Of all the activities people recommend for ‘staying positive’ through the pandemic, journaling seemed the most obvious choice for me. Though I have set no grand expectations for myself, I’m afraid I will be unable to keep from filling each page, eventually, with minutiae. With the flatness of time as it passes here. An…
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I rarely look in the mirror: Spent Light by Lara Pawson
There are days when I want to embody the qualities of a thing. To be effective, but not affected. To be present but not involved. So, in case you haven’t heard, it begins with a toaster. The first thing that the narrator of Lara Pawson’s Spent Light wants to tell us is about the second-hand toaster her neighbour gives her one day, the first toaster she says she has ever owned. She takes it home…
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“. . . it doesn’t come easily, nor should it.” Own Sweet Time: A Diagnosis and Notes by Caroline Clark
. . . questions I’ll never get any further with the thing that I do. Auto fiction? Essay of the self. I need to do this in fits and starts. Straight to the desk after drop-off. I used to get up in the silence of 5 a.m., write, then go back to bed. Major life events—the loss of a spouse or parent, serious injury, significant upheaval, illness—often inspire those already inclined to seek…
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Forward First Collections: Some Early Results 2015/2014
Forward First Collections: Some Early Results 2015/2014
The 2015 Forward Prizes Felix Dennis award for Best First Collection (with its £5000 cheque) will be awarded finally on 28th September. I have been reviewing the shortlisted books this summer as follows:
Mona Arshi – Small Hands (Liverpool University Press) reviewed here; Sarah Howe – Loop of Jade (Chatto & Windus); reviewed here; Andrew McMillan – physical (Cape Poetry); reviewed here; Matthew…
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Forward First Collections Reviewed #3 – Matthew Siegel
This is the third in the series of reviews I will post over the next two months of the 5 collections chosen for the 2015 Forward Prizes Felix Dennis award for best First Collection. The £5000 prize will be decided on 28th September. The shortlist is:
Mona Arshi – Small Hands (Liverpool University Press, Pavilion Poetry) reviewed here; Sarah Howe – Loop of Jade (Chatto & Windus); Andrew McMillan –…
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Things of the Earth: Joaquin Giannuzzi's Poems
Joaquin Giannuzzi
Here’s a game: search the little haystack that follows for the several needle-reasons why I wanted to blog something this week about the poetry of Joaquin Giannuzzi.
In a review in Poetry Wales, Nia Davies praises Giannuzzi’s “singular, destabilising and pessimistic, but humane take on the world” and, in part, she links this to the turbulent political landscape of Argentina through the twentieth…
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