First review of Poetry and Privacy

Poetry and Privacy has been reviewed by David Kennedy at Stride magazine - this is the first review of the book (at least to my knowledge!)

Video of a poem being read

The people at Literature Northwest have just put together a suite of writer-performance videos. I'm seen in one reading my poem, 'Grand Theft America'  (from MUDe) and talking briefly about my work.

The latest PN Review contains an interesting interview with Peter McDonald conducted by Fran Brearton. It contains quite a lot about McDonald's early formation which I didn't know.  I've also got a new poem in the issue: 'Alexandra One'.

Some delay to the publication of Poetry and Privacy. But I've had proofs now and the publisher is just creating the index. So it should be out in a few weeks - fingers crossed!

First sight of new book

 A listing for Poetry and Privacy, my new book, appears on the W. H. Smith website.

Durcan and Kennelly

The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Poetry appears now in the OUP catalogue. I've got an essay in it - there are 40 contributors! - which assesses Paul Durcan and Brendan Kennelly. Both of these poets have been very popular, of course, and they have had some academic attention. In his time Kennelly has probably been over-rated, but I'm not sure Durcan has been fairly treated (at least by academia.)

New poems

I've got some new poems up at Digital Behemoth.