Exactly one month out from the launch of The Summer King, and I can finally show the cover to you all. The first couple of versions of the cover weren't quite right – the earliest version was a white background with a more angular tree, and just didn't do it for me. And we were …
site update – Commentaries posted
If you look right below the header image, you'll see that a new page has appeared – Commentaries! Yes, I've finally managed to get around to formatting some of my close readings and putting them up. I hope to be able to post quite a lot more of these. I really enjoy getting in to …
Duffy Furiosa
I'm behind the times again. (Being sick for a week will do that to you.) Carol Ann Duffy has offered her first official poem as UK Poet Laureate, called "Politics", and it's a cracker – read it here. (In case you're wondering where the title of this post comes from, it's from Prof. John Sutherland's commentary …
Protected: stubbing my toes on Jenny Bornholdt’s The Rocky Shore
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
Book Awards – do they make a difference?
I posted earlier about Saving Poetry Publishers and also the 2009 Montana New Zealand Book Awards. If you've been following the comments, you'll be aware of a good point raised by Tim Jones: that the fees for entering a book in the Awards may be prohibitive for small publishers. This is the current fee structure: …
A Dark Feathered Art 