Chris Edgoose

Grainy still from a colour film showing two boxers squaring up in a ring.

The Irish word for love

Chris Edgoose reviews Rescue Contraptions by Joe Duggan (tall-lighthouse, 2022)

The words "We're all in it together" in white bold text on ragged red and blue triangles (a bit like flags) on a white background.

What lies ahead may cause upset

Chris Edgoose reviews WE’RE ALL IN IT TOGETHER: poems for a disUNITED KINGDOM edited by Michael Stewart, Steve Ely and Kayleigh Campbell (Grist, 2022).

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Call it Love

Chris Edgoose reviews Bioluminescent Baby by Fiona Benson (Guillemot, 2021)

Black and white image of an intense looking young man, on the light grey background are some partially obscured words from Spenders poem "In Railway Halls, on Pavements Near the Traffic"

Two Poetries: Spender, Poetry and Ideology

Chris Edgoose considers Stephen Spender, revolutionary poetry and the need for trust between writers and readers of poetry

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Traces

Chris Edgoose reviews The Dereliction by Liz Berry and Tom Hicks (Hercules Editions, 2021)

Palimpsest

In the second of our series on over-used words in poetry, Chris Edgoose takes on 'palimpsest'

Portrait of the Poet as an Artist

by Chris Edgoose — The Pity was waiting for Michelangelo / in a perfect block of Carrara marble, / and in its carving he learned the weight, / the hang, and the fold of his own heart, / whose hidden dimensions