Heathcote Williams: A Tribute
Along with Tom Stoppard, Heathcote Williams is for me the great English writer of my generation. He is first…
The Barriers of Love
Letters to Akhmatova, Patricia McCarthy, Waterloo Press /Agenda Poetry, August 2015, £9.00 (paperback) How does a contemporary poet write a…
Essay | Cliché as ‘Responsible speech’: Geoffrey Hill by Christopher Ricks
Geoffrey Hill, who died on 20th June 2016, was a great poet, a major poet. To celebrate him, we have pulled from…
Risk and Repetition
Should you come upon this book in a shop, or see its title headlined in a review, it would…
A Peripatetic Life
After the Titanic: A Life of Derek Mahon, Stephen Enniss, Gill & Macmillan, 2014, 304pp, £26.99 (hardback) Derek Mahon…