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The quarrel isn’t often with the poems, though it can be; the quarrel often seems to be with Fenton as a purveyor of his own extravagant gifts as a poet. Because Fenton is always likely to be excising parts of his canon in ways that can seem supremely irritating to his many deep admirers. [...]

It would be too easy to point to the Evan Jones’ autobiography to find the dynamic for this book: a Canadian-Greek, resident in Manchester, married to a German. What would be more natural than for Jones to look at the world askew? And to view it from the various kinds of transport that take [...]

John Matthias is a kind of mid-Atlantic national treasure; he was born in Ohio, but married a woman from Hacheston, Suffolk and has spent most of his life shuttling between the two areas. And his status is such that celebratory volumes of essays have been published on him in both the UK and USA. But [...]

Miró: Sculptor, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Free Entry, Runs Until 06.01.13

It’s Monday of the long Jubilee weekend and I have decided to spend the best part of the day exploring the Miró exhibition at Yorkshire Sculpture Park amongst its well trimmed grounds and lush, cloud shadowed fields and parkland where ruptured tree trunks lie horizontally and [...]