“Just a note here about a slim Salt Publishing publication I recently read, Siân Hughes’s The Missing. The Missing is a first book, but it’s author is no novice at life.”
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“Siân Hughes’ use of idiomatic language is superb, and often has the effect of lulling the reader into a feeling of the quotidian, leaving him or her unprepared for the poem’s ending.” Read more … “Towards the end of last week I read Sian Hughes’s The Missing, shortlisted for this year’s Forward Prize for Best First Collection. I haven’t read the other books on the shortlist so I can’t comment on who should win, but I can say that this one’s really good – a brief, affecting, plain and magnificent [...] “For once, a collection outdoes its blurb – as mentioned in a previous post, “The Missing” is an exceptional book in the context of contemporary U.K. poetry. “Siân Hughes’ subject matters in “The Missing” are signposted from the start. Her lost third child and the end of a relationship are themes that run though the [...] The only poetry on the longlist is The Missing by Siân Hughes, a collection that deals with parenting, illness, loss, regret and ill-fated love. Read more …
Ivy Alvarez dumbfoundry : Poetry news, poetry blogs, poetry magazines, poetry journals, poetry sites, poetry links, etc. Ivy Alvarez (author of Mortal) is one of the original dumbfounders. Ivy covers Rob A. Mackenzie and Andrew Philiip in upcoming blogs.
Megan Taylor Megan Taylor Blog Stories Megan’s blog features random ramblings about writing and publishing, along with some of her own short stories and the odd interactive blog story too. You can also find it on LiveJournal and MySpace. Megan is an author, currently living in Nottingham. Her debut How We Were Lost was published by Flame [...]
Todd Swift Todd Swift is a Core Tutor with The Poetry School, and Lecturer in Creative Writing at Kingston University. His recent book of critical essays on Anglo-Quebec poetry, Language Acts, co-edited with Jason Camlot, was a finalist for the 2007 Gabrielle Roy Prize. (See Jacket Magazine.) He is the editor of many international poetry [...] Cyclone asked dovegreyreader to introduce her blog and her reading life … http://dovegreyreader.typepad.com/
Dovegreyreader I am a Gt Ormond Street trained paediatric nurse by training and until recently had worked as a health visitor in rural Devon for thirty years. Books have always formed a huge part of my life and I started dovegreyreader scribbles in March [...]
Elizabeth Baines Elizabeth Baines is a writer of prose fiction and plays. Her blog elizabethbaines.blogspot subtitled ‘How to be a writer without ending up sozzled, behind bars or insane‘ is a diary of her writing life — her thoughts about the writing process and the writing life, with occasional comment on the books she reads [...] |
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