Poetry and Power

I recently went on a residential writing course in Christchurch, and at one point we decided to recreate the ‘Team Photo’ of the Bullingdon Club on the stairs:

Go forth and legislate.

A startled and apologetic builder came out of the door behind us and it felt like something significant. But anyhow, I have been thinking about POETRY and POWER.

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Review of Theresa Muñoz’s ‘Close’

My review of Theresa Muñoz’s Happenstance pamphlet Close is published in Sphinx Review. I am a negative about quite a few of the poems, but it seems the other two reviewers don’t agree. Maybe I will write something longer on it to back myself up a little more, but then if I am being negative perhaps it is better to not drag it out.

Oh lord please don’t let me be misunderstood.

It has also been reviewed by Afric McGlinchey (whose collection I am reading at the moment) at Sabotage.