My review of Kay Ryan’s Odd Blocks: Selected and New Poems was recently published in the Guardian Review. You can read it here.
‘A Shrunken Head’ has been published in the new issue of the London Review of Books, dated 20 October 2011.
My review of Gjertrud Schnackenberg’s Heavenly Questions appeared in the Guardian last Saturday. You can read the review here.
I’ll be reading at this year’s Exeter Poetry Festival, along with Rachael Boast and Anne Caldwell, on Saturday 8th October at 2pm in Exeter Central Library. The programme is here.
Poetry Proper
By Frances Leviston On September 8, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Ideas, Poetry, Publications, Research
My essay on Ange Mlinko’s Shoulder Season is now online in the new issue of Belfast-based magazine Poetry Proper. If you’re interested in Mlinko, language acquisition, creationism, Paul Muldoon or jokes about tuna mayonnaise, then you might want to have a read. Also: three new poems.
My review of Bernard Spencer’s Collected Poems, Translations and Selected Prose, edited by Peter Robinson, was published in Saturday’s Guardian Review, and is available to read here.
Many congratulations to Elizabeth Johnson, from Farlingaye High School in Suffolk, who has won the 2011 Tower Poetry Competition for her poem ‘Wires‘. Elizabeth received her prize at a reception on Monday night, and read her poem aloud for the guests with brilliant composure.
Congratulations, too, to the 2nd and 3rd prize-winners, Jack Westmore for ‘Shipbreakers‘ and Abigail Richards for ‘Simple‘; and to the three Commended poets, Molly Underwood for ‘The Breaking Day‘, Thomas Fraser for ‘Very Simply the Sound it Makes’ and James Browning for ‘How Brando is Famous’.
Two new poems of mine, ‘Propylaea’ and ‘Hill Top Fort’, are included in the current issue of the Edinburgh Review. No preview online. Northern Irish poet and critic Alan Gillis, now teaching at Edinburgh University, has taken over the editorship, and this is his first issue. The reviews, in particular, take no prisoners.
I met with David Morley and Peter McDonald in Oxford yesterday to judge the 2011 Tower Poetry Competition. The competition is always themed (this year’s theme: simplicity) and is open to anyone aged 16-18 in full-time education. The results will be announced at a reception at the House of Commons on Monday 9th May, on the Tower Poetry website on Tuesday 10th, and in The Times on Saturday 21st.
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