“Everything is in the poems,” Frank O’Hara writes in the manifesto that introduces this selection, in which he describes and … More
Category: Reviews
Review: Mood by Roz Bellamy
A vital memoir of mental illness.
Review: Madukka by Julie Janson
The crime is colonisation.
Review: The Wife by Sigrid Undset (translated by Tiina Nunnally)
Biting marital drama.
Review: The Modern by Anna Kate Blair
Love, sex, marriage, work and New York deconstructed.
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Review: Porn by Polly Barton
Pornchats for everyone!
Review: W. H. Auden: Poems Selected By John Fuller
Poetry that belies Auden’s training as a scientist.
Review: Audition by Pip Adam
Ishiguro meets Le Guin.
Review: Edenglassie by Melissa Lucashenko
Sorrow enlivened by rage and humour.
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