Email Etiquette
Emails are a sphere of communication which is crying out for the imposition of regular form
Still Alive, Last Time We Heard
Two poets on the pleasure of memory
Last post of a post-war poet
Although at times the tone can seem ill-judged, Jon Stallworthy’s poems are full of sincere thought about war
A poet casts a prosaic die
John Fuller’s new volume of prose poems are grimmer and harder to read than his previous works
Getting On
John Betjeman was a poet who knew how to work society
Digital Civilisation?
Two summer exhibitions present differing visions of civilisation
War, Poets, and the Poetry of War
Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon should be remembered as soldiers who were brave enough to show us what war was really like
A Visit From the Ofpoe Inspector
Craig Raine’s collected essays, More Dynamite, is a collection that blows holes in fellow poets’ work, and ends leaving the poetry landscape very battered and bleak
Tate Hangs Back
The Tate’s chronological ‘hang’ of its pictures has ruffled some feathers but it means art lovers can now fly on their own wings
Airtime To Fill
Twenty-four-hour news coverage should have ushered in a new age of investigative, in-depth journalism. Instead, it’s banal, repetitive and slack