30 January, 2012
A Difficult Poet
Geoffrey Hill's Clavics is densely allusive and occasionally brilliant, but gets lost in its own complexities.
Category: Poetry
28 November, 2011
British Verses
The Best British Poetry 2011 anthologises some of the finest British poets writing today, from Emily Berry to Amy De’Ath.
31 October, 2011
An Interview with George Szirtes
Poet and translator George Szirtes talks to the Oxonian Review about language, photographs and winning the T.S. Eliot prize.
Dante in Love
A.N. Wilson's Dante in Love shows genuine love and learning of the Commedia, yet struggles to contain Dante’s world.
17 October, 2011
Giant Resonant Waves
Ben Lerner's Mean Free Path finds the poetry of physics via the physics of poetry, drawing on the struggle of both pursuits.
13 June, 2011
A Single Immense Swoon
Karl Kirchwey's new translation of Poèmes saturniens playfully yet faithfully renders Paul Verlaine's adolescent verse.
The Point of Beauty
David Orr's Beautiful & Pointless introduces the lay reader to poetry but founders on the reef of metaphor.
16 May, 2011
Larkin in Love
Anthony Thwaite's Letters to Monica reveals affection and the quotidian in Larkin's correspondence with Monica Jones.
2 May, 2011
Half in Love
Savich's The Firestorm navigates a frozen transformation, vacillating between entrancement and estrangement.
