Saving the Army: The Life of Sir John Pringle
Approaching his death in 1782, the “Father of Military Medicine” Sir John Pringle deposited his papers in the library of the Royal College of Physicians, taking legal measures to prevent their contents being published. After two centuries and multiple attempts, these restrictions finally been set aside, providing the basis for Morrice McCrae’s biography of the Read More
Dancing in Odessa
I was born in the city named after Odysseus and I praise no nation – to the rhythm of snow an immigrant’s clumsy phrases fall into speech. Ilya Kaminsky is an immigrant but in this his first full collection his phrasing is anything but clumsy. Born in Odessa, his family was granted US asylum in Read More
Archangel
Henry Shukman’s Archangel, published just under two years ago, was much anticipated; it was his first collection since the publication of his award-winning debut In Doctor No’s Garden, over a decade ago. The central sequence of this work addresses a captivating piece of little-known history: the story of thousands of Jewish immigrants, tailors, to be Read More
Human Work
Granta 2012 Poet and visual artist Sean Borodale’s debut collection, Bee Journal rightly earned him an Eliot prize shortlisting and a Guardian Book of the Year accolade. What he terms “poem work” involves making verse in situ – smoked at the opened hive, or note-sticky at the honeyed centrifuge. If most poems may be considered Read More
American Dervish
Steven Reese’s latest collection, American Dervish, as the title suggests, is about people on the move. The collection is divided into three sections, “Dervishes”, “Our Ships”, and “If You Lived Here”. The first sequence of ten Dervish poems is an intense and fascinating characterisation of facets of colonial America. “Dervish”, the opening poem, begins: Our Read More
Absurd Athlete
“Landslides of words, empty wells and a wasteland await”. This one line from Yannis Kondos’s Absurd Athlete perhaps best describes the collection as a whole. “Landslides of words” suggests the intense power and emotional force harnessed in these pages while “empty wells” conjures images of starkness and emptiness, a recurrent theme in Absurd Athlete. The Read More
The Mushroom Club
Written by the winner of the Dundee International Book Prize in 2000, Andrew Murray Scott’s third novel The Mushroom Club certainly bolsters his reputation of having a somewhat unusual approach to writing. The narrative is one of the ultimate mid-life crisis, centring around three friends from university, Emerson, Quinn and Edwards, who meet once a Read More
Through The Woods
Do you still look under your bed, checking to see if the monsters are asleep? Does the wardrobe give you a sense of foreboding, harbouring, as it must all manner of things that go bump in the night? Perhaps they all come from the woods outside your home. Canadian writer and artist Emily Carroll is Read More
Self-Portraits: Poems based on artists’ self-portraits
Self-Portraits by David Pollard is a meticulously crafted collection of poems inspired by the work of eighty-nine artists. Each piece is assembled in such a way that the reader can visualise both the artists and the portraits which inspired the writing with clarity. From Caravaggio to Goya, Da Vinci to Warhol, the poet covers a Read More
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