Current Reading
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These are the books and magazines I am currently reading:
Current book:
"Selected Poems of
Emily Dickinson"
Next book:
''Fear Stalks The Land. A Commonplace Book'
Thom Yorke, Stanley Donwood
Archive Magazine:
Poetry Review: Vol 105:1
Spring 2015
Plus the usual regular subscriptions:
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Acumen
Poetry Book Society
Magma Poetry
Poetry London
the North
The Poetry Review
Pennine Platform
The Rialto
And the other current poetry reads:
To help me focus, and get started with my poetry reading I like to start with a couple of daily read books.
The Daily Read:
"Shakespeare For Every Day of the Year" Edited by Allie Esiri
The Anthology Read:
"Poets of the English Language Vol. 1 Langland to Spenser"
Ed. W. H. Auden and Norman Holmes Pearson.
Links to Abe Books
The Book About Poetry/Poets
Read:
"Life Saving. Why We Need Poetry"
Josephine Hart
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Borrowed from Leeds Library
The Shakespeare Read:
''1599 A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare'
James Shapiro
These are the last dozen poetry books I have most recently completed:
"Sick (a note from 40 Sandilands Road and other stories)"
Sarah Roberts
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"Rapture's Road"
Seán Hewitt
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Leeds Stanza choice
September 2024
"Jackself"
Jacob Polley
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"Haruko/Love Poems"
June Jordan
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Leeds Stanza February 2025 choice
"What"
John Cooper Clarke
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eBook borrowed from Leeds Library
Seán Hewitt
"Adam"
Gboyega Odubanjo
(Re-read)
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Leeds Stanza choice
October 2024
"Divisible By Itself And One"
Kae Tempest
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I listened to an audiobook read by the author. Borrowed from Leeds Library.
" ' a disgusting lie' "
Fran Lock
"Midnight, Dhaka"
Mir Mahfuz Ali​
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'All The Men I Never Married'
Kim Moore
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Leeds Stanza choice November 2024
"Eat Or We Both Starve"
Victoria Kennefick
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Leeds Stanza choice March 2025
And the last dozen pamphlets / chapbooks:
(Well eight so far)
"Computer Dreams"
Anna Cathenka
"Ariadne"
Poetry by Fiona Benson
Illustrated by Judith Eyal
"Takeaway"
Georgie Woodhead'
"Heartwood"
Mary Thomson
"Bad Sermons"
Luke Kennard
"Ten Poems from Scotland"
Selected by Don Paterson
"Forever Alive"
Fran Lock
"Ten Poems from the Countryside"
Selected by and introduced by
Seán Hewitt
Last complete update 16 April 2025