'We pay a price when poetic discourse equals just the quotable phrase. Real feeling resists received wisdom, however well tuned.' @jackbarron93.bsky.social reviews Seamus Heaney's collected poems and letters: thelondonmagazine.org/article/revi...

And: Jack Barron on the poems and letters of Seamus Heaney (@faberbooks.bsky.social). David McAllister on The Complete C Comics by Joe Brainard. Paul Hammond on The Land of Sweet Forever by Harper Lee. Guy Stagg on The Silver Book by Olivia Laing. Order here: thelondonmagazine.org/product/curr...

Out now! Literary Review's September 2025 issue, featuring @willtosh.bsky.social on Christopher Marlowe @claireharman.bsky.social on Muriel Spark Seamus Perry on Tennyson Lucy Hughes-Hallett on the stiff upper lip Patrick Wilcken on Easter Island and much, much more: literaryreview.co.uk

★★★★ A 'lost' book reconfirms Tom Raworth’s legacy as one of the great lyric poets writes Jack Barron, on Cancer @carcanet.bsky.social theartsdesk.com/books/tom-ra...

Reviews: Guy Stagg on Flesh by David Szalay; @jackbarron93.bsky.social on Electric Dreams at Tate Modern; Zadie Loft on Universality by Natasha Brown; Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou on Ithell Colquhoun. Order here: thelondonmagazine.org/product/curr...

Reviews: Guy Stagg on Flesh by David Szalay; @jackbarron93.bsky.social on Electric Dreams at Tate Modern; Zadie Loft on Universality by Natasha Brown; Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou on Ithell Colquhoun. Pre-order here: thelondonmagazine.org/product/sing...

"Childishness & adult language-use are persistently, & with vicious irony, switching scales: ‘pointing it up while scaling it down.’ This can induce wild laughter, but also unbearable gravity." @jackbarron93.bsky.social on the poetry of J.H. Prynne review31.co.uk/essay/view/1...

And lo: here we are, on Bluesky. Pls repost to spread the word!

review31.co.uk/essay/view/1... my review of J. H. Prynne's latest

my review of Ian Patterson's Collected in the latest @pnreview.bsky.social very pleased to be included

From Michael Schmidt's editorial in PN Review 281, our January - February 2025 issue. Read the full article on the Carcanet Substack at the link below. 🔗 https://open.substack.com/pub/carcanet/p/pn-review-281-editorial?r=pgoc1&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Alongside this list, we’ve made all the reviews from this year’s print issues available to read for free on our website. These are linked to the contributor’s name under their Book of the Year selection, and you can find them here: thelondonmagazine.org/the-best-boo...

We are excited to announce The London Magazine’s Best Books of 2024, as chosen by twenty-one of our contributors. Selections include Our Evening by Alan Hollinghurst, Adam by Gboyega Odubanjo and A Question of Palestine by Edward Said. Read the full list here: thelondonmagazine.org/the-best-boo...

thelondonmagazine.org/the-best-boo... here included

★★★★ Book: Jon Fosse - Morning and Evening Drawing out the strange affinities between the spoken, the unspoken, and the unspeakable, a new edition of the Norwegian's 'Morgon og Kveld' captivates @jackbarron.bsky.social