“In [Erica] Reid’s Ghost Man on Second, the real ghost man floating through the pages is the sonnet.” I n listing the ...

Philip Larkin said poetry, for Watkins, was an “instant and unending allegiance … a vocation, at once difficult as sainthood and easy as breathing”. His belief in the importance of metrical shape and ...

His own poetry is driven and riven by the unconsenting nature of ... Poetic craft may hold place names in place (Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire are coyly coaxed into metrical and rhyming order), but ...

In the final episode of their series, Colin and Clare arrive at Muriel Spark, who would never have considered herself a satirist though her writing was as bitingly satirical as any 20th-century ...