Stirring your tea is only a normal activity if you stop doing it relatively quickly
John Redmond, 6 July 1995
The Ice-Pilot Speaks
by Pauline Stainer.
Bloodaxe, 80 pp., £6.95, October 1994,1 85224 298 1 Show More
by Pauline Stainer.
Bloodaxe, 80 pp., £6.95, October 1994,
The Angel of History
by Carolyn Forché.
Bloodaxe, 96 pp., £7.95, November 1994,1 85224 307 4 Show More
by Carolyn Forché.
Bloodaxe, 96 pp., £7.95, November 1994,
“... to the success of Northern Irish poetry during the last twenty-five or thirty years. Ever since Blake Morrison and Andrew Motion gave the primacy of this work semi-official status in The Penguin Anthology of Contemporary British Poetry, the question has been what gives Northern Irish poets their edge. Many reasons have been advanced for the ... ”