Review: Dart by Alice Oswald
David Wheatley finds Alice Oswald's river flows smoothly between Hughesian myth and Larkinesque realism, in Dart Dartby Alice Oswald 48pp Faber£8.99 Like Langston Hughes, Alice Oswald has known rivers....
View ArticleProfile: Geoffrey Hill
Geoffrey Hill's first poems were published when he was a working-class student at Oxford. Dogged by depression for many years, he finally found personal happiness in America. But his new work is as...
View ArticleReview: The Universal Home Doctor and Travelling Songs by Simon Armitage
Simon Armitage breaks no new ground in The Universal Home Doctor or Travelling Songs, but Jeremy Noel-Tod finds a strong, original voice in fine formThe Universal Home Doctorby Simon Armitage66pp,...
View ArticleReview: Moy Sand and Gravel by Paul Muldoon
Is Paul Muldoon one of the greats? Ian Sansom doesn't care as long as he can enjoy his lush and exuberantly idiosyncratic experiments with language in his latest collection, Moy Sand and GravelMoy Sand...
View ArticleReview: The Light Trap by John Burnside
Jonathan Bate hails John Burnside's latest collection, The Light Trap, recently shortlisted for the TS Eliot prizeThe Light Trapby John Burnside83pp, Cape, £8As the 20th century slips away from us, the...
View ArticleDiary: Dec 7
· Lord Evans of Temple Guiting (aka Matthew Evans) resigned as chairman of Faber and Faber this week after nearly 40 years with the firm. At 61 he "hated the idea of hanging around like a lot of...
View ArticleRiver homage wins TS Eliot prize
The TS Eliot prize for poetry, worth £10,000, was won last night by Alice Oswald for her poem Dart.The single poem was inspired by the river Dart in Devon, written after the poet spent three years...
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