The Foreign Passion / La Pasión Extranjera by Cristian Aliaga
very very good Argentine poems
Category: Book Review
Through your blood by Toby Campion
i went to a poetry open mic night
The Fat Black Woman’s Poems by Grace Nichols
finally some really bloody good poems
The Commons by Stephen Collis
why are poets so obsessed with outside?
The Observances by Kate Miller
is “good” poetry bad and “bad” poetry “good”?
Nearly 30 by Joe Woodhouse
bienvenido a la triumphofthenow.com poetry season 2018
Paymon’s Trio by Colette de Curzon
a short story chapbook that’s fine, no more, no less
My Brother’s Husband by Gengoroh Tagame
a cracking manga
Bear by Marian Engel
simply the bestial
Bluets by Maggie Nelson
im blue abadadee abadie
SCUM Manifesto by Valerie Solanas
tell me again how bad i am
Maiden by Karina Bush
poetry review PLUS why I am now a poet
The Tryst by Monique Roffey
another sexy sexy sex book
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
refresh urself before u repress urself
A Spy In The House Of Love by Anaïs Nin
a literary lifestyle novelist in the GUM clinic
Popular Hits of the Showa Era by Ryu Murakami
not a great book, not a great blog post
Translation as Transhumance by Mireille Gansel
a literary memoir on translation
Settled Wanderers by Sam Berkson and Mohamed Sulaiman
a book about an unfamiliar struggle
The Second Body by Daisy Hildyard
we are all connected or are we?
The Unmapped Country: Stories & Fragments by Ann Quin
Find out what Scott Manley Hadley has been reading and doing
Birthday Literary Suicide Tour
So I walk on towards deaths (plural) in the cooling twilight
Compass by Mathias Enard
A beautiful novel for an ugly world.
#TotNTV: Setting Up A Literary Magazine
Sean Preston chats Open Pen.
Paraside Lost by John Milton
Imagine if the songs in Rocky Horror were shit
Queer: A Graphic History by Meg-John Barker & Julia Scheele
Keen to work out what my sexuality is but too repressed to do it using sex
#TotNTV: Translating the Balkans
Three writers and a publisher discuss work in translation
Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
Gorgeous, sensuous, unforgettable
Such Small Hands by Andrés Barba
Digression-free review of some new literary fiction
Negroland: A Memoir by Margo Jefferson
Finally, a book about race that makes me angry at myself
BoJack Horseman
Scott Manley Hadley reviews TV.
Safe Mode by Sam Riviere
familiarity breeds affection
The Fall of Yugoslavia by Misha Glenny
A dense, complex book about a dense, complex conflict
Hold Tight by Jeffrey Boakye
i’m looking tired but feeling great
Notes From No Man’s Land by Eula Biss
great essay collection… from america
His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
I try being kind to myself. It’s alright.
50 Euro by Karina Bush
if sex sells who’s buying
The Voyage that Never Ends: Malcolm Lowry In His Own Words edited by Michael Hofmann
Is The Best of Malcolm Lowry your favourite Malcolm Lowry book?
#TotNTV: Winnie M Li & Dark Chapter
#TotNTV episode discussing a novel about sexual assault
Dreaming In Starlight by Philip Elliott
I review an eBook for another website.
Home is on my Mind… by Sheena Rose
Review of a lo-fi art book and footnotes about depression
Rebuttal from Lewis Parker
A disgruntled former reviewee comes back to work packing heat.
Everybody Behaves Badly by Lesley M. M. Blume
Can I love Hemingway’s writing but hate Hemingway?
Street Epistles by Faruk Šehić
Great poems from an EU Prize winner; the peripatetic blogger continues to splinter
Sex With Theresa May And Other Fantasies by Lewis Parker
Some utter filth, but too much aggression for my comfort
The Best of A Bad Situation by Jamie Thrasivoulou
Angry poetry from the badlands of the East Midlands.
The Africa In My House by Andrea Mbarushimana
A British woman considers the life of her Rwandan husband and his country.
Enemies of the People by Sam Jordison
Who does the bad thing?
Pissing off White Men Again
Some tweet responses from my latest HuffPost article.
The Human Condition Is A Terminal Illness by Matthew J. Hall
Poems about sad, lonely, englishmen
Blue Self-Portrait by Noémi Lefebvre
Some newly-translated cracking French fiction
Triumph Of The Now 