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The dense, ruminative prose poems are balanced by shorter lyrics that have a tense, brittle quality. The overall effect is one of a glitchy sincerity, where abstraction and dislocation are powerful…

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Reading Katherine Rundell’s ‘Super-Infinite’ (yes it is brilliant), and this para might be enough to condemn Pope forever. Sheesh. https://t.co/lgESdJVDnI

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feels like this could be a coda to Jez Butterworth's 'Jerusalem'.

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The Conservative Party After Brexit by Tim Bale review – why conservatism turned into chaos << when laid out forensically like this by ⁦@andrewrawnsley⁩, the years since 2016 resemble a fever dream. https://t.co/r95Xpm0xdR

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Arrangements in Blue by Amy Key review – cathartic meditation on singledom | Autobiography and memoir | The Guardian < delighted to see such a fab review of ⁦@msamykey⁩’s fab book. https://t.co/5OlmXpU9nr

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@lindseyhilsum @SarahJayneKeny1 @bbcpoetryplease Can I chuck in an extract from Christopher Logue’s War Music such as: https://t.co/tGXZJN8ci6

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@sarahspoon The Golden Gate by Vikram Seth, Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey, The Electric Michelangelo by Sarah Hall are the ones that stay and I press upon people the most.

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And I read this new one from Christopher Reid over Christmas, and it’s a lovely jewel of a collection; the music of the poems braid with his memories to create a quite wonderful portrait of a young man, and what survives of him into later years. A real treat this. https://t.co/6jc7UuG3su

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@SarahFPoetry Lawrence Norfolk's In The Shape Of A Boar (if memory serves me correctly, has been a while since I read it.)

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@sarahspoon The Golden Gate by Vikram Seth, Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey, The Electric Michelangelo by Sarah Hall are the ones that stay and I press upon people the most.