I've just finished reading Moniza Alvi's Europa. It was a Poetry Book Society Choice for summer last year, and has been sitting in my (disturbingly large) TBR pile since I got it. Wow. What a collection! I know I go on about the virtues of poetry collections having some sort of unity, but oh, this …
Protected: stubbing my toes on Jenny Bornholdt’s The Rocky Shore
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Some favourite Poetry How-To books
At the request of some of my CPIT students, I thought I'd post a brief listing of some of my favourite poetry How-To books. If you have a favourite that's not on my list, please tell me about it in the comments! (There is no such thing as too many books.) One of my absolute favourites is …
Other people’s revisions
Revision seems to be the area that most clearly sorts the poets from the play-poets. It's hard work (oh god, isn't it just!), and requires you to be able to divorce the editor-self from the poet-self (or "creative-self", if you prefer). Some days (and some poems) are easier than others. The comforting thing is that this …
