Tag: Afric McGlinchey
Claire-Louise Bennett – Pond
Pond is an experimental novel that takes place entirely inside the mind of an unnamed protagonist. It relates the thought processes and...
Minal Hajratwala – Bountiful Instructions for Enlightenment
Bountiful Instructions for Enlightenment is published by The (Great) Indian Poetry Collective, one of whose patrons is Carolyn Forché; Hajaratwala is also fortunate enough to have...
Kobus Moolman – A Book of Rooms
The multi-award-winning South African poet Kobus Moolman begins his seventh poetry collection with a quotation by Georges Perec:
Even if I have the help only...
Sadakichi Hartmann – Collected Poems, 1886-1944
Sadakichi Hartmann has been described as ‘one of the most intriguing and overlooked figures in the history of American poetry’ (Juliana Chang), and with...
Afric McGlinchey – ‘Literary Jury Duty’: Why Reviewing Matters.
I’m guessing that most reviewers are themselves poets. Many of us know that heart-in-mouth feeling of waiting for the critic’s verdict, the one that...
Vona Groarke – Selected Poems
Opening Out
This Selected volume reflects the development of Vona Groarke’s poetic sensibility over a period of twenty years. The poems are drawn from her...
Eva HD – Shiner
Eva HD’s first book of poetry, Rotten Perfect Mouth, was published by Mansfield Press in 2015. Shiner followed a year later. A science lecturer ...
Caroline Smith – The Immigration Handbook
Caroline Smith (Orbis 176) is delving here beneath the morass of statistics and forms to uncover the real lives, circumstances, memories and emotions of...
Conor O’Callaghan – Nothing on Earth
Shards
A distraught young girl appears on the doorstep of a man living alone, and tells him that her father has disappeared. So begins the...
Afric McGlinchey: 3 Poems
Immersion
Gills appear on either side of the throat;
liquid slowly webs my toes and fingers;
then it’s the spiraling dance
downward to the algae-curtained house
of rock and...