It’s an exceptional time for poetry biographies: Katherine Rundell on John Donne, the paperback of Julia Copus on Charlotte Mew, and Mark Wormald on Ted Hughes and fishing (sounds unpromising but I am a quarter of the way in and it is electrifyingly good). Also Marius Kociejowski's brilliant memoir, A Factotum in the Book Trade, an account of Kociejowski's life among antiquarian books: he brings to life the eccentric collectors, authors and booksellers with the characteristic exuberance and panache which distinguishes his travel writing.
And there’s plenty of lively poetry as well: Annie Brechin’s long-awaited debut, The Mouth of Eulalie, a new collection from Róisín Tierney, and a New and Collected from Andrew McNeillie, bringing together many hard-to-find old volumes and a crop of fresh new work. Last on my list is a placeholder for whatever J.H. Prynne has published between my typing this and it going up on the website.
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The first comprehensive biography of this undervalued writer, who was considered 'far and away the best living woman poet' in her day.…
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The Welsh poet Andrew McNeillie brings together in this generous and timely volume his seven collections of poems – including his most recent, Making Ends Meet, and his Forward-Prize-shortlisted Carcanet…
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Eighty-two raw, fragmented, numbered poems in couplets chart the course of a marriage: passion, obsession, humour, love, sex, control, betrayal and liberation.*In The Mouth of Eulalie Annie Brechin is in love. Well, not her and…
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“These unsettling, dark lyrics have a wonderful verbal energy; a mythic imagination. Snowberries have a ‘pale gleam’, a ‘halo’, a texture like ‘a mortician gently filling a bruise.’ Insects and…
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'An absolute gem ... I was delightfully lost by the river throughout' - Paul Whitehouse'Marvellous…The Catch leaves both its writer and its reader wonderfully "lost in water"' - Robert Macfarlane'Penetrating and…
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The bookshop is, and will always be, the soul of the trade. What happens there does not happen elsewhere. The multifariousness of human nature is more on show there than anywhere else, and I think it’s because of books, what they are,…
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**A Sunday Times top ten bestseller****Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award 2023****Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize for Non-Fiction 2023****Shortlisted for the Slightly Foxed First Biography Prize…
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