Tag: poets
Most of my Heroes Don’t Appear On No Stamps by Ran Walker
brief comments on a collection of kwansabas
The Long Take by Robin Robertson
some notes on a gorgeous novel
Selected Poems by Stevie Smith
read some dated poetry
That Lonesome Valley by Melissa Lee-Houghton
some thoughts on a novel you should probably read
Hera Lindsay Bird by Hera Lindsay Bird
short review of a wonderful poetry collection
The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem edited by Jeremy Noel-Tod
a fresh anthology that’s worth YOUR attention
Bad Boy Poet: LIVE IN DALSTON
Scott Manley Hadley launches Bad Boy Poet.
Bad Boy Poet: LIVE TONIGHT IN DALSTON
BOOK LAUNCH TONIGHT NOVEMBER 14TH 2018
Bad Boy Poet by Scott Manley Hadley
Reviewed by Karina Bush
Bad Boy Poet: Intimate & Al Fresco
reading some poems in the Spanish desert…
Bad Boy Poet by Scott Manley Hadley
Review by L. Tumbleweed Parker. CW: ableist language
Feast of Sapphires by Matt Nagin
find out what poetry i like and why i write about poopoo
Ossuaries by Dionne Brand
political poetry: what is it good for?
Selected Poems by Federico García Lorca
why I owned but didn’t read this book for five years (anger, depression)
Remembering Oluwale: An Anthology edited by SJ Bradley
a powerful anthology of poetry and prose
Poem 66 by Susana Medina
a Wide Sargasso Sea for Lolita
Typhoid August by Sarah Fletcher
chapbook review that turns into me recounting my entire relationship with sex
Twenty-Six Factitions by Erik Kennedy
Scott Manley Hadley on the poetry scene
Poems and Songs by Leonard Cohen
some inappropriate teenage nostalgia
Twenty Love Poems & A Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda
it’s not love if u pretend they don’t shit
Passivity, Electricity, Acclivity by Ella Frears
good, serious, accessible poems
Sunshine by Melissa Lee-Houghton
this is impressive, i am depressive
There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé by Morgan Parker
v good poems tho a v poor blog post
Who Is Mary Sue? by Sophie Collins
more tasty contemporary poetry
Being With Me Will Help You Learn by Thomas McColl
slowly, book by book, i realise what i like
The Foreign Passion / La Pasión Extranjera by Cristian Aliaga
very very good Argentine poems
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
Maiden by Karina Bush
poetry review PLUS why I am now a poet
Street Epistles by Faruk Šehić
Great poems from an EU Prize winner; the peripatetic blogger continues to splinter
The Best of A Bad Situation by Jamie Thrasivoulou
Angry poetry from the badlands of the East Midlands.
The Human Condition Is A Terminal Illness by Matthew J. Hall
Poems about sad, lonely, englishmen
Extravagant Stranger: A Memoir by Daniel Roy Connelly
A book that describes itself as “Ian Fleming meets Rimbaud”
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
because white men can’t / police their imagination / black men are dying
The Hatred of Poetry by Ben Lerner
A lot of people don’t read poetry. A lot of people who read a lot of books, don’t read poetry. AContinue Reading
Yesenin: The Selected by Sergei Yesenin
Recently, I’ve been trying to cut down the massive piles of unread books in my house. By reading them, notContinue Reading
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down And Wept by Elizabeth Smart
I’m not at work, so I should be writing real prose, doing something creative, emailing pitches for articles through toContinue Reading
Penguin Modern Poets 25
Other than having an excellent cover, this 1975 collection of poems by Gavin Ewart, Zulfikar Ghose and B. S. JohnsonContinue Reading
The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade by Thomas Lynch
Thomas Lynch is an acclaimed American poet. He is also an undertaker. This book is a collection of essays aboutContinue Reading
Hanging out alone in Seville, reading Roberto Bolaño’s The Savage Detectives
Well, I’ve been away four days and have already completed my first read of the trip. Roberto Bolaño’s HUGE TheContinue Reading
Poems by B. S. Johnson
When asked his occupation, or for any kind of self-identification, B. S. Johnson would reply that he was a “poet”.Continue Reading
Triumph Of The Now 