Tag: poems
On sparrows

Obituaries lift the heart. They’re the part of any newspaper or magazine to turn to first if you want to cheer yourself up by reading about the positive side of human nature. At the moment, when the news pages resemble an unending nightmare by Hieronymus Bosch, that’s especially true. Last week I read on Twitter […]
Poetry as blood donation

O Positive, says his publisher, ‘is the long-awaited debut collection of poetry from Joe Dunthorne’. Faber seem to have forgotten that they published an earlier, shorter collection in 2010 in the Faber New Poets series. Several poems in this are carried over into the new book. Though he started out as a poet, Joe is […]