Two new titles out now!
Posted June 29, 2009
Metrophobia
Stephanie Leal
£7.99, 64pp
From urban sketches of London and warped love poems to a paean to the Boston Tea Party and a letter to an American in Afghanistan, Metrophobia establishes a poetry that is inventive, quirky and packed with humour.
“A searching and resourceful imagination is at work here, seeking new perspectives with vitality and insight.”
- Penelope Shuttle
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Napoleon’s Travelling Bookshelf
Sarah Hesketh
£7.99, 64pp
At once erudite, humourous and stylishly contemporary, Sarah Hesketh’s debut collection invokes a world of frozen lakes, ‘snow-spun streets’ and people who have stayed too long.
“What Sarah Hesketh’s poems do so remarkably is to string a row of images together in such a way that each keeps its distinct hardness while at the same time contributing to a crystalline whole. They are original and utterly convincing.”
- Bernard O’Donoghue
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Footage from the launch party at Shakespeare’s Globe:
And here it is… Lewis does Sutherland
Posted June 2, 2009
Things To Do Before You Leave Town by Ross Sutherland
Read by Damien Lewis for BBC Newsnight Review
And here is the animated version by the man himself, plus some footage in front of a dartboard:
Newsnight Poetry Special
Posted May 29, 2009
As part of the BBC Poetry Season, Newsnight Review are screening a poetry special tonight, Friday 29th May at 11pm on BBC2. The show features Simon Armitage, Luke Wright, Scroobius Pip, Chris McCabe, Clare Pollard and others - as well as a poem by our very own Ross Sutherland, from his debut collection Things To Do Before You Leave Town, read by the actor Damien Lewis (see below).
If you’ve found your way here out of curiosity, do take a look at Ross’s book - you can order it online right here for only £6.99. And if you’re new to this whole poetry thing, you could do worse than check out our latest bumper anthology City State: New London Poetry.
If you missed tonight’s show you can view it online with BBC iPlayer.
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And here it is… Lewis does Sutherland