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The Death of Criticism
Jonathan Gottschall has an article in the Boston Globe which supports my view that academic literary criticism has reached a…
Featured Poem: When We Two Parted
Byron's poem 'When We Two Parted' is one of the most famous of all love poems and probably the greatest…
Recommended Reads: Double Indemnity
Steven Powell is writing a PhD dissertation on James Ellroy at the University of Liverpool. Double Indemnity is one of…
Brian Turner: Here, Bullet
Review by Chris Routledge Brian Turner's Here, Bullet is a collection of poems about the war in Iraq. It draws…
Featured Poem: from Dr. Faustus
We're stretching the definition of 'poem' a little bit this week to enjoy this famous speech from Christopher Marlowe's The…
‘Dumbing down’ Shakespeare: to be or not to be?
A call from the University's press office at noon on a Friday is not a particularly usual occurrence. 'We're after…
Carrying on with the Book
from A Shropshire Lad, A.E.Housman II. Loveliest of Trees Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along…
How Books Die
April 23 is UNESCO World Book Day and over at the Kenyon Review Sergei Lobanov-Rostovsky has a gloriously hangdog post…
Booze and the Book
Some writers claim to be able to write when drunk and a few even claim it helps. I'm not one…
Featured Poem: ‘Lucy Gray’ by William Wordsworth
Wordsworth's poem 'Lucy Gray' (1799) is one of his best known. Reading it recently with my daughter--who is fascinated with…
Featured poem: Gerard Manley Hopkins
I came across this poem for the first time this weekend whilst flicking through an anthology at my Grandma's house…
Local Literary Events
There are some really fantastic literature events coming up over the next few weeks in the North West, including author readings,…
