Somnolent Parnassian Slopes
Human Chain, Seamus Heaney, Faber and Faber, 96pp, £12.99 (hardback) The ecumenical title of Seamus Heaney’s twelfth collection is…
The Human Dream
Rain, Don Paterson, Faber and Faber, 61pp, £12.99 (hardback) Rain can clear the air, refresh dry perceptions, and wash…
An Inimitable Journey
Landfalls: On the Edge of Islam with Ibn Battuta, Tim Mackintosh-Smith (with illustrations by Martin Yeoman), John Murray, 370pp,…
Fridge-Age Man in the Nutritional Cacophony
The Meaning of Cooking, Jean-Claude Kaufmann (translated by David Macey), Polity Press, 280pp, £17.99 (paperback) Cooking can be seen…
Risky Rhetoric
Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty, Tony Hoagland, Bloodaxe, 96pp, £9.95 (paperback) Tony Hoagland is still something of…
Kindness and Truth
A Light Song of Light, Kei Miller, Carcanet, 80pp, £9.95 (paperback) ‘[A] story will come to steal your breath,’…
A Diasporic Renaissance Man
Looking Out, Looking In: New and Selected Poems, E. A. Markham, Anvil, 256pp, £14.95 (paperback) When Edward Archie Markham…
Murdoch’s London
Like Dickens, Woolf and Ackroyd, Iris Murdoch is a London novelist. It is high time for a full-length study of this subject.