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'The Man Overstanding' - on Raymond Antrobus' 'All The Names Given'
Genuinely acclaimed first books can be hard to follow up. Raymond Antrobus’ The Perseverance (Penned in the Margins, 2018) was a Poetry Book Society Choice and won the Ted Hughes Award and the Rathbone’s Folio Prize in 2019. I reviewed the book that year as one of the five collections shortlisted for the Forward Felix Dennis First Collection Prize. In many ways it was a conventional book of poems…
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We’ll Meet Again/Well Met Again: my first public reading since lockdown
It has been a long time since I last posted anything substantial on my blog. In the great scheme of things pandemic, this will not have been remarked upon; though for anybody out there who has noticed, I send my apologies. A particular disappointment is that I have not been able to review this year’s shortlisted Forward First Collections (and the announcement of the winner is almost upon us). For…
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2020 Forward First Collections reviewed: #4 Martha Sprackland's 'Citadel'
2020 Forward First Collections reviewed: #4 Martha Sprackland’s ‘Citadel’
As in the previous five years, I am posting – over the summer – my reviews of the 5 collections chosen for the Forward Prizes Felix Dennis award for best First Collection. This year’s £5000 prize will be decided on Sunday 25th October 2020. Click here to see my reviews of all the 2019 shortlisted books (eventual winner Stephen Sexton); here for my reviews of the 2018 shortlisted books (eventual…
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2020 Forward First Collections reviewed: #2 Will Harris' 'Rendang'
2020 Forward First Collections reviewed: #2 Will Harris’ ‘Rendang’
As in the previous five years, I am posting – over the summer – my reviews of the 5 collections chosen for the Forward Prizes Felix Dennis award for best First Collection. This year’s £5000 prize will be decided on Sunday 25th October 2020. Click here to see my reviews of all the 2019 shortlisted books (eventual winner Stephen Sexton); here for my reviews of the 2018 shortlisted books (eventual…
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2019 Forward First Collections Reviewed #5 – Stephen Sexton's 'If All the World and Love Were Young’
2019 Forward First Collections Reviewed #5 – Stephen Sexton’s ‘If All the World and Love Were Young’
As in the previous four years, I am posting – over the summer – my reviews of the 5 collections chosen for the Forward Prizes Felix Dennis award for best First Collection. This year’s £5000 prize will be decided on Sunday 20th October 2019. Click on this link to access all 5 of my reviews of the 2018 shortlisted books (eventual winner Phoebe Power), here for my reviews of the 2017 shortlisted…
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2019 Forward First Collections Reviewed #4 – Jay Bernard’s ‘Surge’
2019 Forward First Collections Reviewed #4 – Jay Bernard’s ‘Surge’
As in the previous four years, I am posting – over the summer – my reviews of the 5 collections chosen for the Forward Prizes Felix Dennis award for best First Collection. This year’s £5000 prize will be decided on Sunday 20th October 2019. Click on this link to access all 5 of my reviews of the 2018 shortlisted books (eventual winner Phoebe Power), here for my reviews of the 2017 shortlisted…
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2018 Forward First Collections Reviewed #4 - Shivanee Ramlochan
2018 Forward First Collections Reviewed #4 – Shivanee Ramlochan
This is the fourth in the series of reviews I am posting over the summer of the 5 collections chosen for the 2018 Forward Prizes Felix Dennis award for best First Collection. The £5000 prize will be decided on 18th September 2018. Click on this link to access all 5 of my reviews of the 2017 shortlisted books (eventual winner Ocean Vuong), here for my reviews of the 2016 shortlisted books (eventua…
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2017 Forward First Collections Reviewed #4 – Ocean Vuong
2017 Forward First Collections Reviewed #4 – Ocean Vuong
This is the fourth in the series of reviews I have been posting over the summer months of the 5 collections chosen for the 2017 Forward Prizes Felix Dennis award for best First Collection. The £5000 prize will be decided on 21st September 2017. Click on these links to access all 5 of my reviews of the 2016 shortlisted books (eventual winner Tiphanie Yanique) and all 5 of my reviews of the 2015…
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