Tag: Poetry
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To London, Poems
This lovely letterpressed book features many local sights and spots which will be familiar to our customers. Local author Michael Shann has captured the sensory joy of Borough Market perfectly: “to weave through the waft of grilling beef/paella, mulled wine and cheese/to take it all in and still to keep moving/past the gawp of a…
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The Hatred of Poetry, by Ben Lerner
The Hatred of Poetry, Ben Lerner Paperback, Fitzcarraldo, £9.99 Ben Lerner is one of our subtlest, most erudite and original writers so it was with great anticipation I opened his latest publication: a short essay in the form of a simple yet beautifully bound paperback published by Fitzcarraldo, whose impeccable taste, evident in both who…
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Citizen – An American Lyric, by Claudia Rankine
Paperback, Penguin Books, £9.99, out now This book has been out for ages. It has been in the shop for ages. It won the Forward Poetry prize for best collection last year. So why am I writing about it now? I am writing about it because I can’t stop thinking about it, and because it…