A literary review. We cover non-fiction, literary fiction and poetry. Est. 2011
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"Broken Words gives us a broken world. In that world, alterity is largely oppressive, except in privileged moments. Even vegetable life becomes an antagonistic force, its trees laughing derisively."
@BretVDB on Clarence Caddell's BROKEN WORDS
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"Her writing is spare but lingering in its suggestiveness, in the exorbitant honesty of its emotional repertoire."
@StuartWalton1 on Galia Admoni's poetry collection, SOMEBODY SHOULD HAVE PRESSED RECORD
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"Her writing is spare but lingering in its suggestiveness, in the exorbitant honesty of its emotional repertoire."
@StuartWalton1 on Galia Admoni's poetry collection, SOMEBODY SHOULD HAVE PRESSED RECORD
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"Most translators use the expected word, the vampire ‘sucks’ blood, but the word used by Baudelaire has connotations relating to trade, to providing goods for a warehouse, so I translate this as the vampire ‘stocked up’ on blood."
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‘Writing on the Verge of Prophecy’ — I'm delighted to have interviewed the author, translator and #Oulipo expert Philip Terry back in the spring... The interview is out today on ace literary journal @Review31 (photo my own) review31.co.uk/interview/vie…
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ICYMI my interview with author and translator Philip Terry, editor of The Penguin Book of Oulipo (that's my review copy in the photo!) and much else besides, came out on @Review31 this week — #books #Oulipo #Fridayreading
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New at @Review31, @BretVDB’s perceptive review of my collection, Broken Words: review31.co.uk/article/view/…
"Broken Words gives us a broken world. In that world, alterity is largely oppressive, except in privileged moments. Even vegetable life becomes an antagonistic force, its trees laughing derisively."
@BretVDB on Clarence Caddell's BROKEN WORDS
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"Loneliness is something I’ve struggled with, even though I think it’s a universal condition & actually very beautiful a lot of the time, if you give it the space & time to be."
Eva Wyles talks about her debut short-story collection, DELIVERYWOMAN
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My essay in defence of smoking is up with Review31 (@Review31) now, in which I do and don't smoke, and why we should be smoking aboard planes.
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"This book is not so much a history of Cuba, as a kind of Museum of Curiosities, a collection of eccentrics & their eccentricities."
Mike Gonzalez on @js_tennant's MRS GARGANTUA
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Thank you to @Review31 who describe @joelucbarnes's #FarewellToRussia as a ‘timely travelogue that explores what, if anything, still binds the ex-Soviet states together … [Barnes] is a witty writer who successfully balances accessibility with insight.'
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"Half intergenerational bildungsroman & half technocratic noir, the novel consists of a series of dualisms: corporation versus flock, coming-of-age versus eternal youth, vampirism versus bucolicism, layman versus clergy."
Alice Brewer on LOST LAMBS
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"Half intergenerational bildungsroman & half technocratic noir, the novel consists of a series of dualisms: corporation versus flock, coming-of-age versus eternal youth, vampirism versus bucolicism, layman versus clergy."
Alice Brewer on LOST LAMBS
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"We have in Henri Coulette a new major minor poet to marvel at: his forms are exact, his humour dark & wry, & he wears his learning lightly."
Austin Spendlowe on Henri Coulette's NEW AND SELECTED POEMS (ed. Michael Caines & @BorisDralyuk)
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A superb review of Michael Caines’s and my edition of Henri Coulette’s poems.
“Coulette’s meticulous forms play host to wit and verve and murk by turns. […] ‘A hummingbird whirrs by, / Towing the purple evening in his wake’, and with it nails down Coulette’s lyric gifts.”
"We have in Henri Coulette a new major minor poet to marvel at: his forms are exact, his humour dark & wry, & he wears his learning lightly."
Austin Spendlowe on Henri Coulette's NEW AND SELECTED POEMS (ed. Michael Caines & @BorisDralyuk)
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“We have in Henri Coulette a new major minor poet to marvel at: his forms are exact, his humour dark and wry, and he wears his learning lightly.”
In @Review31, Austin Spendlowe reviews Henri Coulette’s “New and Selected Poems” - review31.co.uk/article/view/…
"We have in Henri Coulette a new major minor poet to marvel at: his forms are exact, his humour dark & wry, & he wears his learning lightly."
Austin Spendlowe on Henri Coulette's NEW AND SELECTED POEMS (ed. Michael Caines & @BorisDralyuk)
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"One can catch glimpses not only of the ways in which Ireland has changed, but also into the ways in which Ireland, & Irish literature, continues to evolve."
Tadhg Hoey on Martin Doyle's A HOSTING: INTERVIEWS WITH IRISH WRITERS 1991-2026 (@LilliputPress) review31.co.uk/article/view/…
"Those looking for poetic diction will be thinly sated... What there is instead is a relentless exercise in auto-therapy, working through, stumbling on the occasional breakthrough."
@StuartWalton1 on Joe Carrick-Varty's BEFORE VIOLENCE (@Carcanet)
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