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Articles by Penelope Shuttle
Returning To Didcot: A Commonplace By Jonathan Davidson
Jonathan Davidson knows when to stop talking. And if we are to measure beauty solely by the standard of brevity we are on to a winner with his new book, at a consumptive 106 pages. Davidson stops talking when he doesn’t perceive a need to continue, and instead fills the spaces where superfluity might otherwise rein, with synoptic treasures. And then he moves on.
Poem Of The Week: From Under Milk Wood By Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)
Steve Whitaker Literary Editor 12:22 PM 28th October 2020 from Under Milk Wood To begin at the beginning: It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched, courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboatbobbing sea.
The Safety of Clouds: Fledge By Jonathan Humble
If you studied English Literature at school in the late sixties or early seventies, and you were searching for a way through the woods, it’s very likely that you encountered the figure of Ted Hughes on your journey. The brooding, visceral presence in your mind’s eye, the hand that drove the instructive pen in Poetry in the Making, and the shockingly original natural images of Hawk in the Rain, may even have given you an impetus to write.
Ghost Flowers: The Poetry Of Emma Simon, Nick On & Hilary Menos
Even in a series of collections as disparate, and individually rewarding, as the three winners of the Poetry Business competition for 2019, there is a tendency to try to locate connections, as though it were incumbent upon the reviewer to think thematic or lyrical simpatico into being. It’s where a natural synoptic impulse, or an urge for clarity through the illusion of verisimilitude, leads us.
Poem Of The Week: 'Incoming' By Jonathan Humble
Curlews. Photo by Burkhard Lüling Incoming. A missile, maybe; an approaching Exocet, or a Super Étendard flashing wildly out of the sun over San Carlos water. There is an observational precision to Jonathan Humble’s neatly-drawn series of couplets which mimics cold military science; the poetics of the contingent and the concrete, the expedience and the murderous nemesis. But Humble’s tone is counter-intuitive - it belies a sense of awe, and of real love of subject.
Father Lear by Penelope Shuttle
Father Lear the king so shaped his bairns with the wand’s upper hand the fire’s swanny wing smooth tippet of the spider In the very kingdom of herbs and servants he shaped them from peace vessels of the animals from toil of the flesh from milk horses and the birds of sighed mercy and the tongue undone He shaped his bairns in night’s long harm and in day’s bright psalter in the seven courts of the north and with the mild birch of the paternoster From his ploughing fields and his sweat his...
Preparing For The Worst: Funerals Your Way By Sarah Jones
Steve Whitaker Literary Editor 7:22 PM 16th December 2018 You could barely call Leeds funeral director, and former surgeon, Sarah Jones’ new guide timely; this subject matter is never timely: the prospect of death is something we tend to shield ourselves from, if not to actively shelve, until it affects us directly.
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