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~800 plot-driven sonnets, anyone???
intellectual poems that don’t become impersonal
broken sleep’s second annual anthology
objectively brilliant, yes, but not not not so good for me?
“People eat what they can. They love what can love them back.”
i read some poems on the backlot throat goat
the FIRST TriumphOfTheNow.com DM interview!!!
Today we’re (I’m) looking at another poetry magazine. I’m not quite sure if this one is a magazine or ifContinue Reading
is “art writing” poetry? / is “poetry” art writing?
incredibly good popular poetry from Beyoncé’s collaborator
powerful, direct, dignified poems
poetry cannot exist outside of the world
excellent poetry & performance piece
some old vids of *your* favourite mentally ill poet-blogger
some great love poetry surrounded by trepidatious discussion of someone else’s illness
a fun zine i picked up in the extreme north (Liverpool)
realising i read poetry looking for poets, not poems
latest chapbook from one of my favourite writers
a partial reading from 4/5 years ago, previously unpublished
you been doing all this dope [blogging] / You ain’t had a chance to show ’em what time it is
a masterpiece of contemporary sonnetteering
the Earth itself is a revolutionary anti-capitalist (funny poems)
an excellent anthology from friend of the blog broken sleep books
potentially significant if unexciting 18th century ballad
a gorgeous chapbook kicks off POETRY MONTH
before a month of all new all poetry reviews, check out a selection from the TotN vaults!
exclusive look at a new poetry film by scott manley hadley!
a supposedly transgressive thing i’ll probably do again
a novella as boring as my life rn then a novella that’s good
ten years ago i started a blog instead of killing myself
terrified i may look like i dont know how to drive
Christmas Brooke-Rose Quadrilogy day 4/4
half of a crime novel
a gorgeous book
lessing’s children of violence continues to be excellent unlike my mood
repression at the end of the world
a very american-feeling memoir about being rich and successful and a literal god?
a bland book for my bland life
in early Jan I was quoted in the New Yorker and read a perfect novel
read some terrible books that failed to distract me from anything
on ian flemming, jackie kerouac, karlo knausgaard
rare writing depicting middle class rootlessness not as tragedy
my year was deathly dull, which in 2020 counts as a good year
consistently reading more than i can blog (or do anything else)
an excellent short genre piece
a blog from when the [first?] lockdown eased
i read a great Toronto novel and recall summer 2019 when I worked at lux events
very little on the book, lots of rage at the slow quietening of June’s global protest movement