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The Angry Brigade by Alan Burns
unexpectedly, one of the best books i’ve ever read
On Lighthouses by Jazmina Barrera
some notes on a book of notes about lighthouses
Golden Apple of the Sun by Teju Cole
strongest lockdown lit i’ve (yet) to encounter
Winter Journey by Eva Figes
1967 and old men are walking in winter
The Lost Spell by Yismake Worku
some contemporary ethiopian magical realism
Thread Ripper by Amalie Smith
a gorgeous book
POETRY MONTH: text redacted from 2017 SAFE MODE by Sam Riviere blog post
redacted text from septy ’17
POETRY MONTH: Rewriting Stella by Dan Tuttle
~800 plot-driven sonnets, anyone???
POETRY MONTH: Caviar by Sarah Fletcher
intellectual poems that don’t become impersonal
POETRY MONTH: Broken Sleep Anthology 2019
broken sleep’s second annual anthology
POETRY MONTH: 81 Austerities by Sam Riviere
objectively brilliant, yes, but not not not so good for me?
POETRY MONTH: Liver Mush by Graham Irvin
“People eat what they can. They love what can love them back.”
POETRY MONTH: The Nancy Reagan Collection by Maxe Crandall
i read some poems on the backlot throat goat
POETRY MONTH: Stefan Mohamed INTERVIEW
the FIRST TriumphOfTheNow.com DM interview!!!
POETRY MONTH: Dreich #3
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POETRY MONTH: Acorn by Yoko Ono
is “art writing” poetry? / is “poetry” art writing?
POETRY MONTH: Bless The Daughter Raised By A Voice In Her Head by Warsan Shire
incredibly good popular poetry from Beyoncé’s collaborator
POETRY MONTH: Waiting Room by Poppy Cockburn
powerful, direct, dignified poems
POETRY MONTH: The Rink by Aaron Kent
poetry cannot exist outside of the world
POETRY MONTH: The Towns We Leave Hate Us Most by Aislinn Evans
excellent poetry & performance piece
POETRY MONTH: scott manley hadley readings round up
some old vids of *your* favourite mentally ill poet-blogger
POETRY MONTH: Lyme by Jared A. Carnie
some great love poetry surrounded by trepidatious discussion of someone else’s illness
POETRY MONTH: WORD VOMIT zine
a fun zine i picked up in the extreme north (Liverpool)
POETRY MONTH: Produce Poetry Or Die. by Narada Voux Sanders
realising i read poetry looking for poets, not poems
POETRY MONTH: Rotten Milk by Karina Bush
latest chapbook from one of my favourite writers
POETRY MONTH: [partial reading from years ago of] Float by Anne Carson
a partial reading from 4/5 years ago, previously unpublished
POETRY MONTH: reviews of scott manley hadley
you been doing all this dope [blogging] / You ain’t had a chance to show ’em what time it is
POETRY MONTH: The Tinder Sonnets by Jennifer LoveGrove
a masterpiece of contemporary sonnetteering
POETRY MONTH: The Marketplace of Ideas by Stefan Mohamed
the Earth itself is a revolutionary anti-capitalist (funny poems)
POETRY MONTH: ANTHOLOGY 2018 by Broken Sleep Books
an excellent anthology from friend of the blog broken sleep books
POETRY MONTH: Bars Fight by Lucy Terry Prince
potentially significant if unexciting 18th century ballad
POETRY MONTH: HEROIN HAIKUS by William Wantling
a gorgeous chapbook kicks off POETRY MONTH
POETRY MONTH: poetry reviews from the vaults
before a month of all new all poetry reviews, check out a selection from the TotN vaults!
POETRY MONTH: poetry film premiere
exclusive look at a new poetry film by scott manley hadley!
excerpts from The Imagination on Trial: BS Johnson interviewed by Alan Burns
excerpts from a BS Johnson interview
Journey to the Alcarria by Camilo José Cela
uninspiring 1940s travel writing
Fireship/Mother and Child by Joan D. Vinge
a novella as boring as my life rn then a novella that’s good
Licence Renewed by John Gardner
reading more of John Gardner’s James Bond so you don’t have to
Penguin Classics Marvel Collection: Black Panther by various
are superheroes for superzeroes?
The Other Wind by Ursula Le Guin
i continue having a terrible time
Eastbound by Maylis de Kerangal
a pre-release post on a novella about Russian conscripts
The Membranes by Chi Ta-Wei
excellent 1990s spec fic from Taiwan
Pissing Figures 1280–2014 by Jean-Claude Lebensztejn
mostly fun book on peeing in art with a very off-colour digression
Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire by Max Haiven
palm oil as microcosm of the mess that is capitalism
Recursion by Blake Crouch
very fun, very trashy, contemporary time travel novel
Babel by Alan Burns
a middle class british heterosexual Howl
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