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Homage to Dufu’s Cottage

  Translated by Kailan 1. Thirty years ——- I walked from this side to the other side of summer thirty…

The Crossing

  ‘When any of the fugitives said, “Let me go over”, the men of Gilead said to him…”Say Shibboleth,” and…

Oh, Brother

  Brother, Matthew Dickman and Michael Dickman, Faber & Faber, 2016, £10.99 (paperback) Syllabus of Errors, Troy Jollimore, Princeton Series…

A Literary Landscape

  Winter Migrants, Tom Pickard, Carcanet, 2016, 74pp, £9.99 (paperback) Quennets, Philip Terry, Carcanet, 2016, 135pp, £12.99 (paperback)   Tom…

I was walking

  that bit more quickly then less purposefully down a sunlit road that ran from traffic-lights at the town’s or…

Alexander Herzen in London

Decembrist blood! We are taxed for their visions. The earth turns, returns, through cycles of declamation – Geoffrey Hill, ‘Scenes…

Haunting Parallels

  The Face of the Buddha, William Empson, edited and introduced by Rupert Arrowsmith, Oxford University Press, 2016, 224 pp,…

The Korean Wave

  The Story of Hong Gildong, Anonymous, trans. Minsoo Kang, Penguin Classics, 2016, £9.99 (paperback)   Thirty minutes north west…

The Table

  This red oak table has no memory. Its mother was a tree who needed earth, water, and sunlight, a…

The Selkie

  October is dying quickly now. They bring me soup but I have no appetite. My skin is the colour…

Trucks

  The clouds shift past like overloaded trucks. It’s summer. We are standing on the kerb, hands joined, waiting to…

Crickadarn

  From the top of the slope, among the desire lines of crows, looking down to the house and its…

Wooden Spoon

  Not knives or pans. The genius of a kitchen is the wooden spoon, that archaic thing – a dugout…

Tsunami-

  (Kho Phra Thong, 2004) We realise we are going to die. A rushing roar. Waves rise like hooded cobras…

Two Daughters

  There was once a widowed lord with two comely daughters. Though the loss of his wife brought the lord…

The Upper River at Christmas

  It is late December, a mild midwinter’s day ——in the week that stumbles ————between Christmas and New Year when…

Making Haste Slowly

    The Intimate World of Josef Sudek, Jeu de Paume, Paris, 7 June – 25 September 2016 and The…

My London

  Róisín Tierney is an Irish poet who taught for several years in Spain and Ireland. She is now settled…

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