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The best recent poetry – review roundup
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The Stone Age (Picador) Shetland-based Jen Hadfield provides a vivid portrait of the landscape of her home, while also showing how neurodiversity can lead to new slants, insights and metaphors when viewing the world. Songs of “Deep Time” jostle with reminders of our transience: “But humankind / are brief, soft // fireworks, prone / to go off at a moment’s / notice”. The landscape is filled with an unexpectedly playful inventiveness, typographical as well as verbal; stones speak, ravens fly upside down as they become ideas, razor clams are buried giants’ fingernails, emotions become bigger in the big country. What’s most captivating is how Hadfield brings sensations to life; subtle and propulsive, her language fizzes and dashes “in little surges like rills of clear pleasure”. The poems more often than not end with a dash, rather than full stops – warm, open invitations to r ....

United States , New Zealand , Chris Lewis , Fleur Adcock , Jen Hadfield , Troy Fisher , Maria Dahvana Headley , Stone Age , Shetland Based Jen Hadfield , Holly Pester , Comic Timing , Granta Poetry , Old English , ஒன்றுபட்டது மாநிலங்களில் , புதியது ஜீலாந்து , கிறிஸ் லெவிஸ் , ஜென் ஹாட்ஃபீல்ட் , ராய் மீனவர் , ஸ்டோந் வாழ்நாள் , ஷெட்லேண்ட் அடிப்படையிலானது ஜென் ஹாட்ஃபீல்ட் , ஹோலி பூச்சி , காமிக் நேரம் , பழையது ஆங்கிலம் ,