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THE inextricable link between our suffering, our sense of celebration and our hopes for healing is concisely and mysteriously captured in this poem by Andrew Philip. It is from his first full collection, The Ambulance Box (Salt, 12.99). Read more [...] THOMAS McCARTHY POETRY: Next to Nothing By Chris Agee, Salt Publishing, 113pp. ?12.99 NEXT TO love, grief is the great enabler of poems. In many ways grief is more powerful than love, whether in fiction or poetry. Love, especially if it is a happy collaboration between adults, excludes us from its golden [...] Few art forms have had their obituary written as many times as poetry, yet it is now thriving again ? and it?s that supposed enemy of high culture, the internet, that is behind the renaissance The market for new poetry is small; it is not bought and sold like modern [...] Dear Alice: Narratives of madness by Tom Pow, (Salt Publishing) Tom Pow?s powerful new collection of poetry explores the imaginative legacy of a nineteenth-century lunatic asylum, the Crichton, drawing on the richly-documented history of the site. The Crichton, now part of Glasgow University?s Crichton Campus in Dumfries is now Pow?s workplace where [...] We are thrilled to hear today that Salt short story author, Tania Hershman, has been commended by the judges of the Orange Prize for New Writers. In a statement released this morning, Mishal Husain, BBC World News presenter and Chair of judges, said of the judging process: ?it was a very competitive field [...] Margaret Reynolds reviews three war-themed poetry collections The Word for Sorrow by Josephine Balmer Salt ?12.99; 56pp Buy the book The Cinder Path by Andrew Motion Faber & Faber ?12.99; 58pp Buy the book The Opposite of Cabbage by Rob A. Mackenzie Salt, ?12.99; 54pp Buy the book [...] |
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