Reviewed: The Blue Butterfly by Richard Burns. Salt Publishing, 2006.
That Richard Burns is not as well known as his poetry merits, even in his native England, is a situation for which I can think of a couple of reasons.… continue reading...
New Collected Poems by W. S. Graham. Edited by Matthew Francis, with a foreword by Douglas Dunn. Faber & Faber, 2005
What is the language using us for?
As Reviewed By: Alfred Corn
Myths about poetry and its production resist rational criticism, and we may be wasting our time trying to deconstruct the fable that English-language poetry has unfolded under what might be called a presiding genius, a directive energy moving from place to place at different points in history.… continue reading...
