poetry

I Love Roses When They’re Past Their Best

Literature / By Charles Whalley / August 5, 2014 September 15, 2014

Although a significant proportion are British, the poets in I Love Roses When They’re Past Their Best have little geographical commonality, and are unlikely to have come together before the internet; their home as poets is online…

The wondrous post of Anis Shivani

Literature / By Editorial / August 15, 2010 September 12, 2011

Anis Shivani. Very keen critic or very angry (or disappointed, or hurt, or ‘misunderstood’) author? You decide. At least his damning critique of pomo writing is very, very funny. Read for example what he has to say about celebrated poet John Ashbery: