Editors Rebecca DeWald and Samuel Tongue were invited to be “bloggers-in-residence” at Scotland’s International Poetry Festival StAnza in St Andrews, which took place from 4–8 March 2020. By Rebecca DeWald and Samuel Tongue Only… Continue reading
I am a Rohingya: Poetry from the Camps and Beyond. Edited by James Byrne and Shehzar Doja (Arc Publications, 2019) Review Essay by Alycia Pirmohamed What lives in the silences between the muezzin’s recitation of the… Continue reading
Sue Prideaux I Am Dynamite: A Life of Nietzsche (Faber & Faber) By Nicolas Hausdorf Biographies of philosophers are a cause for suspicion. Are they not attempts to dispel the mystique of the… Continue reading
The Celery Forest. Catherine Graham (Wolsak & Wynn: Buckrider Books, 2017) Review by P.W. Bridgman After I read The Celery Forest the first time—from beginning to end in one sitting—I found my heart… Continue reading
Dina Nayeri, The Ungrateful Refugee (Canongate, 2018) By Lynnda Wardle Living in a crumbling Italian hotel-turned-refugee camp, the 8-year old Dina Nayeri witnesses a story as old as time itself. While everyone waits… Continue reading
O, At the Edge of the Gorge. Martyn Crucefix (Guillemot Press, 2018) Review by Alison Graham Martyn Crucefix has a remarkable body of work behind him, ranging from the equal parts startling and… Continue reading
‘An Evening with Ariana Harwicz’ took place at Waterstones on Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, on 26th April 2019. The discussion was chaired by translator Daniel Hahn, and featured translator and Charco Press editor Carolina Orloff.… Continue reading
Vicky Grut, Live Show: Drink Included (Holland Park Press, 2018) By Lynnda Wardle “Perhaps it sounds uncaring” says one of the characters in Vicky Grut’s fine debut collection Live Show: Drink Included, “but… Continue reading
Kate Bush How To Be Invisible (Faber, 2018) by Becky Varley-Winter In her lyrics to ‘The Sensual World’, Kate Bush draws inspiration from Molly Bloom, the ‘Penelope’ figure and ‘mountain flower’ whose orgasm… Continue reading
Amy Chazkel, Laws of Chance: Brazil’s Clandestine Lottery and the Making of Urban Public Life (Duke University Press, 2011) I have been interested in Brazil since a school project in primary school. And… Continue reading
