Here’s my review for Magma 29, covering the Poetry Book Society’s quarterly selection of poetry books. The PBS Choice was Michael Longley’s Snow Water. The PBS Recommendations were Matthew Hollis’ Ground Water, Kate Clanchy’s Newborn, August Kleinzahler’s The Strange Hours Travellers Keep, James Sheard‘s Hotel Mastbosch and George Szirtes’ translation of the Hungarian poet Agnes […]
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The Last Three Poetry Books I Bought
Rob MacKenzie asks ‘What were the last three poetry books you bought?’ so here are my latest purchases: 1. Pillars of Salt by Judy Brown – I liked Judy’s poems so much I published three of them in Magma 34, including Passenger. So I was very pleased to see she’s just published this pamphlet – […]