These poems seem to me a dance between substance and absence – the pursuit of ghosts, in all senses of the word: phantoms, shadows, the past, even ourselves. When you login first time using a Social Login button, we collect your account public profile information shared by Social Login provider, based on your privacy settings. The illuminating dérives of the finale, After the Flood, explore this further with in-situ jottings of journeys through mothballed Belgian stations, reminding us that the best poetry is often that which never makes it from the notebook. The canals and rivers of Oxford aren’t working waterways anymore, but livelihoods used to depend on them.

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We celebrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander stories, traditions and living cultures; and we pay our respects to Elders past and present. We at Penguin Random House Australia acknowledge that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are the Traditional Custodians and the first storytellers of the lands on which we live and work.Composite: AI CAConrad sits for seven days in front of a Rothko in You Don’t Have What It Takes to Be My Nemesis. His memoir Other People’s Countries won the Duff Cooper Prize, and his second novel, Throw Me to the Wolves, won the Encore Award. Evans shares with Geoffrey Hill a sincerity so intense at times that it can tip into anxiety, as well as an interest in English history. All the gaps where things can’t be said, where leaving empties into loss and where communication goes beyond language. Tracing ambiguities in a twilight haze will always be a ready pitfall for a work of this sort, but it is avoided here, and the poet achieves a rare, brittle clarity.

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Language, Poetry and Rhetoric’, A Cultural History of Ideas in the Age of Empire, eds Johnson and Rosenfeld, Bloomsbury, 2022, pp. Eliot is famous for his brilliance, sophistication and complexity, and no less infamous for his refusal to make concessions to the casual reader; but making sense of the legendary poet does not have to be a chore.Patrick McGuinness is a poet, novelist, translator and academic, and professor of French and Comparative Literature at Oxford University and a Fellow of St Anne’s College.