Friday, May 5, 2023

Bonfire Books' Anthology of Australian Verse. Publication.

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 I have three poems in this Anthology of Australian Poetry, published by Bonfire Books.  One of them is this one.  The book is available fro...
Saturday, April 15, 2023

The winner of this year's national poetry competition (UK 2023).

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You can read the poem here.   https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/mar/29/poem-of-beauty-wit-and-grace-about-fathers-and-sons-wins-nationa...
Thursday, April 6, 2023

The Punishments. Publication in The High Window

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My version of an incident in the Middle Welsh story Math uab Mathonwy, the fourth Branch of the Mabinogion. I was plodding my way 'trans...
Thursday, March 30, 2023

Faber's 'The Waste Land, a Biography', by Matthew Hollis

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My (lengthy) review of this strange book is published at: https://brazen-head.org/2023/03/29/a-wasted-life-of-the-waste-land/
Friday, March 24, 2023

The Lost Book of Barkynge by Ruth Wiggins

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  The Lost Book of Barkynge Ruth Wiggins Shearsman Press 2023   ‘’In his  Historia ecclesiastica,  Bede refers to a ‘libellus’ (or  little ...
Sunday, February 19, 2023

Review of Vale Royal by Aiden Andrew Dunn

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  My review of this excellent book is up at The High Window.  https://thehighwindowpress.com/category/reviews/ If I were into snappy sub edi...
Saturday, January 21, 2023

Ravenser Odd by Michael Daniels.

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  This is Michael Daniels’ first collection, the traditional slim pamphlet, with the added benefit that the publisher, Poets House Pamphlets...