Books interview: Simon Armitage
Your 2004 collection, CloudCuckooLand, includes 88 poems named after the constellations. What's your relationship to asterisms and astronomy? That became a hobby that became an obsession; in some ways like poetry itself, a language that I wanted to …
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The Third Reich by Roberto Bolaño, trans Natasha Wimmer – review
Jünger (1895-1998) was a hero of the first war who had an ambiguous relationship with Nazism, keeping a distance but not taking obvious risks. For Bolaño he might represent the possibility of steering a way through the tides of history, or more likely …
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The Mara Crossing, By Ruth Padel
She doesn't need to turn this musing into a poem – the poetry is already there, contained in the prose. From famous dustbowl images of migrant workers to the fall in long-distance migrant birds coming to Britain; from contemplating her own move to a …
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Film Feature: The 10 Best Overlooked Films of 2011
Scene after scene depicts the push and pull of a long distance relationship struggling to stay alive against all odds. There are times when British college student Anna (Jones) and Jacob (Anton Yelchin) feel the need to move on but are entirely unable …
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