Bethany W Pope

Five Expat Poets to Watch in 2016

Community, Newsletter, Poetry / By Robert Peake

To my knowledge, the T.S. Eliot prize shortlist has never included someone in Eliot’s own circumstances–that is, an American-born poet living in the UK. Yet there are many of us out here, and many worth knowing more about. I have therefore complied a list of Five Expat Poets to Watch in 2016. Seek them out, …

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The Knowledge Gets Sabotaged

Books, Newsletter, Poetry / By Robert Peake

Bethany W. Pope of Sabotage Reviews took a critical eye to an advance review copy of The Knowledge, and found it every bit as surprising as I hoped it might be to a perceptive reader. She begins her review: Robert Peake’s The Knowledge (Nine Arches Press) is a subtle, tender collection whose mixture of narrative …

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