What’s in your bucket?
For the last twenty years, I have had a note stuck on my fridge door: Things to do before I die. I was advised a couple of years ago, that this is known as a Bucket List and is very popular with thos ...
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An anthology of poetry and two plays by a major 20th century English playwright
Robert Tanitch reviews the latest books The Zoo of the New: Poems to Read Now Selected by Nick Laird & Don Paterson (Particular Books imprint of Penguin Books £25) The poems in this anthology are ...
Big books from each side of the big pond
Modern Manners in the UK Set in West Sussex in 2015 the book features the same characters we first met in The Secret My Intensity of Everyday Life (2009). I did not read this book and it did not make ...
Chasing Yows in Yorkshire
“Sex, tragedy, all them folks comin’ and goin’: twas all ‘appening back then just t’same as it is now… some things nivver change.” This is the sentence that ends the chapter on February in the latest ...