The Schooldays of Jesus by J. M. Coetzee and Nutshell by Ian McEwanReviews, Writing“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire”: you could say that this Yeatsian…
The Power by Naomi AldermanReviews, WritingSome suggest that science fiction is a woman’s genre. In its purest form, sci-fi reimagines the structures of society and,…
The Met Office Advises Caution by Rebecca WattsReviews, WritingAs its title suggests, Rebecca Watts’s new collection seeks to reinvent nature poetry for the 21st Century: a tradition most…
An interview with Gwilym JonesInterviews, WritingThere’s something about the unpredictability of a storm that arouses excitement and chaos in a reader, writer, or just your…
The Red and Yellow Nothing by Jay BernardReviews, Reviews, WritingIt is difficult to put a finger on the immediate aftermath of reading The Red and Yellow Nothing: there is…
The Sleepwalkers by Will StoneReviews, WritingEurope is a wasteland in Will Stone’s third collection The Sleepwalkers. The poet portrays the continent as ‘What’s left of…
Shining Shoes by Nausheen EusufPoetry, WritingWeekends, growing up, I’d watch my father as he sat on a low stool in the veranda surrounded by half…
The Blind Roadmaker by Ian DuhigNews, ReviewsIn his latest eclectic collection of poems, Ian Duhig sings (and dances) for those marginalised in poetry and forgotten by…
Falling Awake by Alice OswaldNews, Reviews‘The whole challenge of poetry’, Alice Oswald once wrote, ‘is to keep language open, so that what we don’t yet…
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