Books in depth
Gerald Murnane – Barley Patch
The name Murnane was new to me, showing how insular one’s literary preoccupations can be. My knowledge of Australian novelists was limi...
What is the Difference between Poetry written for Performance and Poetry written for the Page?
A few thoughts – making reference to Spoz’ 2019 publication Sometimes Angry.
I don’t have an issue with performance poetry. I have see...
Fan friction
A long review of Alastair Campbell’s Living Better: How I Learned to Survive Depression
I’m a fan. The podcast The Rest is Politics,...
Why was The Salt Path a bestseller?
Raynor Winn’s account of the South West Coast Path was published in paperback in 2019, five years after the author and Moth her husband...