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Poems for Europe: 10 national portraits in verse
18 May 2014:What happened when 10 European poets were asked to portray their home country in verse ahead of the European elections? Well, the first thing some of them did was cheat. Then they all became a little melancholic… By Ruaridh Nicoll
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21 Oct 2014: Nicholas Lezard’s paperback of the week: Rhyming ‘Minerva’s Owl’ with ‘Simon Cowell’, 15 poets have fun hauling Byron’s hero into the modern age
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17 Oct 2014:
This jaunty collection of light verse is also a conspicuous formal accomplishment By Sean O'Brien
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13 Oct 2014: Singers and orchestra rose well to the challenge of the composer’s work, more secular oratorio than song cycle, writes Rian Evans
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10 Oct 2014: The Forward prize-winning collection mingles grammatically correct English with patois to emphasise the different ways in which a place can be known. By Carrie Etter
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28 Sep 2014: Alan Bennett reveals far more of himself than he does of Hardy, Larkin, Betjeman and co in this nonetheless enjoyable anthology, writes Kate Kellaway