I like to look back over photos and diary entries from the past year, remember what I did,what I learnt and where I went. Here is a brief summary from 2018, what did you get up to? mais 561 palavras
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READS OF THE YEAR 2018: CHIN LI
James Wood How Fiction Works
James Wood has been on my radar for some time, but it was only this autumn that I came across his delightful… mais 1.399 palavras
READS OF THE YEAR 2018: HENRY KING
Kenneth Burke A Grammar of Motives
Burke is a star on the wane, if being included in the first edition of The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism… mais 490 palavras
READS OF THE YEAR 2018: ROB MACKENZIE
Fani Papageorgiou The Purloined Letter
This collection, Papageorgiou’s third, has two long-ish sequences bookended by a handful of shorter poems. The sequences are comprised of short non-linear numbered poems, which speak to each other and, indeed, there are echoes between all the pieces in the book. mais 284 palavras
READS OF THE YEAR 2018: P.W. Bridgman
Jonathan Tulloch Larkinland (Seren, 2017)
“Bed, upright chair, sixty-watt bulb, no hook / Behind the door, no room for books or bags — / ‘I’ll take it…” This is how, in “Mr. mais 1.352 palavras
READS OF THE YEAR 2018: A.M. BAKALAR
Since the birth of my daughter two years ago, my reading time has diminished dramatically. I had to become very selective in what I read, which is probably a good thing, considering the shrinking space in my house because of rising book towers. mais 839 palavras
READS OF THE YEAR 2018: Stephanie Green
Luck is the Hook by Imtiaz Dharker (Bloodaxe, 2018) is my stand-out book of poetry this year. Lyrical with a compassionate humanity, Dharker’s poems have a piercing, deceptive simplicity of image and language, particularly the poems about the loss of her husband and her bereavement. mais 963 palavras
