Writing tagged: ‘poetry’
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Book review: ‘The Bonniest Companie’ by Kathleen Jamie
A wonderful collection of poems.
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Book review: ‘Selected Poems’ by Kathleen Jamie
A highly enjoyable poetry collection.
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3 December 2018
On poetry being like chess (and not).
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Book review: ‘Selected Letters of Philip Larkin’ (Anthony Thwaite, ed.)
Hugely entertaining correspondence from one of Britain’s most popular poets.
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Book review: ‘Poetry Notebook’ by Clive James
Sorting the poetic wheat from chaff.
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On misunderstanding Larkin
It wasn’t until many years after encountering a favourite passage of Larkin’s poetry that I realised I had fundamentally misunderstood his view of photography.