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Solemn-sinister wreath-rubbish
Philip Larkin and the politics of forgetting
Nov 6
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October 2025
The end of childhood reading
An old piece, and some new thoughts
Oct 12
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September 2025
Walking with Keats
To Autumn as a democratic landscape
Sep 30
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The Middle-Distance Poem: An Elegy
What was it? Where did it go?
Sep 19
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August 2025
A few reviews I didn't write
Thomas Hardy, Lamorna Ash, Thomas Peermohammed Lambert &c
Aug 30
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Orwell in the Infernal Garden
Animal Farm at 70 and Gregory Leadbetter's 'The Infernal Garden'
Aug 17
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The wind's song: John Masefield's 'long trick'
Why 'Sea-Fever' is the gift that keeps on giving
Aug 7
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July 2025
'The Bean Eaters': Gwendolyn Brooks's perfect poem
On twinklings and twinges, lists and list poems
Jul 23
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June 2025
Remembering Adlestrop: Edward Thomas's dream poem
What's in a name?
Jun 20
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May 2025
Something almost being said: Larkin, Tennyson and 'The Trees'
Afresh, afresh, afresh...
May 16
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April 2025
'Bank Holiday' by Katharine Mansfield
A seasonal short story
Apr 21
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March 2025
The Lane
A story, of sorts
Mar 21
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