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LATEST BOOK
The Glacial Stairway and other poems. Carcanet, July 2011. Collects most of the recent works mentioned on this website. See the home page.
Reviewed by David Wheatley in The Guardian 6th August 2011 and by Nigel Wheale in Tears in the Fence (forthcoming).
RECENT & FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS
Essex Skies (poem) Halfcircle 2, 2011
Thoughts on Barry MacSweeney (essay). In a collection of writings about MacSweeney edited by Paul Batchelor, to be published by Bloodaxe in 2012/13
W.S. Graham: A Creature in its Abstract Cage. In a Graham collection supposed to appear 2012 as a special issue of The Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry.
“Whencefrom” (prose) in Cusp, edited by Geraldine Monk, to be published by Shearsman 2012. Cusp is a collection of pieces by all sorts of people about what it was like beginning to get involved in poetry. “Whencefrom” is adapted from the material in “Biography” on this website.
Review of Roy Fisher, Standard Midland and An Unofficial Roy Fisher. PN Review forthcoming.
WEBSITE APPEARANCES
Interview with Daniel Eltringham. The Literateur January 2012.
OTHER
A one-day conference on my work at Birkbeck College London on January 14th came and went with such despatch that it was never mentioned on the website. It was organised by Amy Cutler and Alex Latter, and about a dozen people of all sizes and ages spoke about me. I wasn't there, because I didn't want to be a little yellow idol sitting there all day inhibiting free comment, and anyway I had a chest infection (still have). But I turned up in time to witness a final all-round discussion, and croaked my way through a reading of “The Ascent of Kinder Scout” (of which more will be heard later). I got the impression that people were seriously engaged, interested in broad and various approaches, and I didn't hear any jargon. The proceedings are to be published as a book by Gylphi.
Up to now we have not had anything like a real winter this year. The woodpecker has not been seen for a long time. Another squirrel got trapped inside the squirrel-proof bird feeder.