Cyclone Reviewed in London Grip
A remarkably kind and perceptive review of Cyclone by Adele Ward in London Grip
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Cyclone Reviewed by Rachel Carney
Rachel Carney of the Created to Read website gives a sensitive, perceptive read of Cyclone.
Cyclone one of The Spear’s Big Reads of 2018
As 2018 draws to a close, Cyclone finds itself in some remarkable company as part of The Spear’s Big Reads of 2018 list as a “standout book of the year”. Deputy Editor Chris Jackson wrote, “Peake’s collection of poetry–his third–is a magnificent meditation on grief and its aftermath, all taking place within a climate change-conscious world where, …
Two Poems, and a Review of The Knowledge, in Poetry Salzburg Review
My copies of Poetry Salzburg Review 28 arrived today, with its signature surrealist cover holding nearly 200 pages of enticing poetry and reviews. Among them are two new poems from me–“The Computer Programmer’s Wife”, to which I expect many a beleaguered techno-spouse might relate, and the off-kilter Anglophonic lament “Getting On With It”. I am …
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Letting the Robin out of the Bag
I have had poems coerced into handmade paper via letterpress printing techniques, laser printed on broadsides sheets, and even hung like advertisements in shop windows. I am really excited, though, to have a poem on a tote bag. Not just any tote bag–a concrete interpretation of my poem “Robin”, beautifully designed by Jane Commane, on …
Quadrapheme Names The Knowledge a Book of the Month
Eleanor Franzen, managing editor of Quadrapheme, has picked The Knowledge as one of their best books in April. Particularly notable is that it makes their cut alongside four accomplished prose writers. (Take that, cruelest month.) Quadrapheme is a totally independent literature review site, which receives no funding from either publishers or the British Arts Council, so ostensibly they say …
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