Current Reading
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These are the books and magazines I am currently reading:
Current book:
"Music for the Dead and Resurrected"
Valzhyna Mort
Next book:
''indiom'
Daljit Nagra
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:
"On Poetry"
Glyn Maxwell
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:
"The Kids"
Hannah Lowe
Re-read as an eBook borrowed from Leeds Library
"Omeros"
Derek Walcott
borrowed from Leeds Library
"the sun and her flowers"
Rupi Kaur
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An eBook read by the author. Borrowed from Leeds Library. *
"Haruko/Love Poems"
June Jordan
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Leeds Stanza February 2025 choice
"Stag's Leap"
Sharon Olds
"Auguries of a Minor God"
Nidhi Zak / Aria Eipe
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An eBook read by the author. Borrowed from Leeds Library.
"Pepper Seed"
Malika Booker
"Divisible By Itself And One"
Kae Tempest
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I listened to an eBook read by the author. Borrowed from Leeds Library.
"Rendang"
Will Harris
"So This Is Christmas"
Brian Bilston
'Sonnets for Albert'
Anthony Joseph
"Eat Or We Both Starve"
Victoria Kennefick
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Leeds Stanza choice March 2025
And the last dozen pamphlets / chapbooks:
(Well seven so far)
"Computer Dreams"
Anna Cathenka
"Ariadne"
Poetry by Fiona Benson
Illustrated by Judith Eyal
"Takeaway"
Georgie Woodhead'
"Heartwood"
Mary Thomson
"Ten Poems from Scotland"
Selected by Don Paterson
"Forever Alive"
Fran Lock
"Bad Sermons"
Luke Kennard