4 February, 2013
A Different Picture
Octavia Cox finds a less lovesick John Keats emerging from Nicholas Roe's essential new biography of the poet.
Category: Poetry
21 January, 2013
The Old Edifice of Knowing
In Time Lived, Without Its Flow Denise Riley reflects on the death of her son.
16 December, 2012
Major Label Verse
On Sam Riviere's 81 Austerities and "the middlebrow mediascape."
4 November, 2012
Poetry’s Government
Fiona Sampson's Beyond the Lyric props up the hegemony of a moribund poetics, argues Joe Kennedy.
18 June, 2012
Bruised in Order to Ferment
Peter Redgrove's Collected Poems is an overly expansive compilation of verse best sampled in small doses.
Movements of the Earth
John Kinsella's Armour is the work of an ethical poet for whom social critique and lyric nuance work in tandem.
Everything in Excess
Anne Carson's Antigonick is a convincing translation of Sophocles that puts emphasis on chaos and irony.
Past Tension
Simon Armitage's The Death of King Arthur attempts to emulate the success of his acclaimed update of Gawain and the Green Knight.
