Tag: review
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Geoff Dyer grows up
Geoff Dyer is one of those authors who never writes the same book twice. He’s produced around twenty of them so far, on a kaleidoscopic range of subjects, including the history of photography, India, Soviet film, the First World War, jazz heroes, Roger Federer and war movies. My favourite is Out of sheer rage: wrestling…
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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…