There’s an omnipresent overseer throughout Jarman’s Modern Nature . It manifests in different forms as he switches from daily records of the...

  We live in a world which tolerates the past only as costume drama. Politicians, business people and management theorists are always urging...

Philip Dunn’s work has already won him many local admirers, and now his keenly-awaited first collection introduces his work and his poetic v...

Scenes from Life on Earth is the third collection of poems from Kathryn Simmonds, the follow-up to her 2008 Forward Prize-winning debut col...

  Kim Moore’s What the Trumpet Taught Me is an exciting, innovative experiment with the  memoir form. It uses precise vignettes of a girl a...

Like London buses, good books come about in pairs. Having read and reviewed Michelene Wandor’s Critical-Creative Writing: Two Sides of the ...

In life, as in academia, how often do you think, “if only they had written a book about …?” Well, I’ve found the one that I’ve been miss...

Melissa Harrison, photograph by Brian David Stevens Melissa Harrison is a novelist and nature writer Melissa contributes a monthly Nature N...

  Oxford, traditional epicentre of murder and scholastic mayhem in England doesn’t want to miss out again, and in this skilfully constructed...