It’s the school holidays here, and also the university Easter break, so I’m taking a fortnight away from Some Flowers Soon, and pausing paid subscriptions. I’m inspired, though, by this homegrown fruit and veg shed I saw on a walk in the country recently to leave a couple of links that may interest both regular readers and passers-by.
A close-reading from Nicholas Jenkins’ The Island: W.H. Auden and Englishness was the starting-point for this post about Auden last year:
I was reading the book for review, and the full piece appeared in Prospect magazine last month:
A nice unexpected mention in the Guardian this week for my anthology The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem (2018) reminded me that I did an interview in 2019 about other books of prose poetry. In the years that have passed since, I’d forgotten quite a lot of what I said, so I’m very grateful to Stephanie Kelley for recording and transcribing it:
https://fivebooks.com/best-books/prose-poetry-jeremy-noel-tod
Spring wishes to all readers — and, as the veg shed says, many thanks for your support.
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