Literary treats in store for 2009 ? The Guardian highlights Luke Kennard

The Migraine Hotel, by Luke Kennard (Salt): Luke Kennard’s The Harbour Beyond the Movie was that rare commodity: a poetry collection both excellent and laugh-out-loud funny. His latest offering ? in which he considers heartbreak, despair and the pleasures of schadenfreude via his own sui generis brand of didactic humour ? [...]

?Our revels now are ended? ? But welcome to the New Year!

Happy New Year, everyone!

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