Robert Selby
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Essential fragments: on the poetry of David Harsent
Below is an essay by Lavinia Singer from A Working Model of the Fall from Grace: Essays & Poems for David Harsent, recently published by Offord Road Books in collaboration with The Next Review. The festschrift gathers together contributions in verse, prose, interview and image to celebrate David Harsent’s life and writing career that…
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Try To Be Better: an engagement with the creative practice of W. S. Graham
This week sees the launch of Try To Be Better, a multi-disciplinary engagement with the idiosyncratic creative practice of the late poet W. S. Graham, co-edited by Sam Buchan-Watts and Lavinia Singer, and published by Prototype (formerly Test Centre). In this book, contemporary writers and artists respond to prompts Graham left in notebooks and…
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‘In every hundred and wapentake’ – an introduction to James Brookes
Robert Selby ‘The loss of imperial power,’ said Seamus Heaney in a Berkeley lecture of 1976, ‘the failure of economic nerve, the diminished influence of Britain inside Europe, all this has [begun to force English poets] to explore not just the matter of England, but what is the matter with England.’ Heaney was…