Camille Ralphs Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Camille Ralphs

'Translation was in some sense Heaney’s home soil, his Antaean trampoline.' Michael Hofmann on Seamus Heaney's translations in @TheTLS: https://t.co/PTwTlTEfMs

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'[Borg] excels when analysing the natural world, from the “needlework of [ocean] currents” and the “siltstone honeycomb” of southern England to Dante’s grimly “flourishing” forest of the suicides.' @JadeCuttle reviews Jemma Borg's Wilder in @TheTLS: https://t.co/PhEIMJgClo

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'Draycott is rightly regarded as a poet of sensitivity and lyrical control. But these are not airy poems. Their mysteries are well served by the muscularity of her descriptions.' @MayaCPopa reviews Jane Draycott's The Kingdom in @TheTLS: https://t.co/7deWHvq9bE

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'Ali’s work is inclusive poetry of plenitude ... The agony and injustice Ali addresses always appear in the context of this greater totality, this sensuous abundance, of human life.' @Carrie_Etter reviews Kazim Ali's The Voice of Sheila Chandra in @TheTLS: https://t.co/ZsLUhw00I2

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'McMillan’s work is not without music, even when he is at his most direct ... However, it is hard not to read many of his sequences as poems struggling into prose.' @KhaledNHakim reviews Andrew McMillan's pandemonium in @TheTLS: https://t.co/6SlycxXG6j

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'The romances are the songs which Don Quixote and Sancho Panza heard the ploughman singing at his work. They belong to the squire as much as to the knight, as much to the field as to the court.' James Fenton on The Poem of the Cid in @TheTLS: https://t.co/C1ndRdKw8U

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'Eliot ... becomes avant-garde, even proto-Concrete. John Ashbery gives way to Rae Armantrout’s sly doubleness, or “Cheshire poetics”. Pound anticipates the rise of visual poetry in Brazil.' Diana Leca reviews Infrathin by Marjorie Perloff in @TheTLS: https://t.co/rkloF4zxrv

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'Rather than a linear growth from draft to draft towards greatness, [Ted] Hughes’s creative development is seen as a learning process of trial, error and change'. Sandie Byrne reviews The Page Is Printed by Carrie Smith in @TheTLS: https://t.co/7Q92FSYloA

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'Floodmeadow ... is still unabashedly intellectual, but less pretentious [than its predecessors], integrating its ideas and references more fully with its imagery.' @victoriamoul reviews Toby Martinez de las Rivas's Floodmeadow in @TheTLS: https://t.co/Ri0VBHPaww

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'History writing, travel writing, journalism – High Desert braids together strands of all these genres without ceding its status as poetic utterance.' Rachel Hadas reviews André Naffis-Sahely’s High Desert in @TheTLS: https://t.co/ZNLoYzQUx9