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“... Badger After the midnight crash of bins, Our neighbour’s dog barking And our neighbour shouting I remembered the hedgehog We found last month Unzipped in the long grass. Otter If I were to mention otters, One would dodge the traffic And slip silently up to my door. All I would know of it Would be the whisperings of neighbours And whitening spraint on the concrete ...”

“... 2009 biography, but the publication of their correspondence, expertly compiled and annotated by Tim Kendall, casts light on it from new angles. One of the things that emerges most vividly is the shifting power dynamic between author and editor. Unsurprisingly, at the start of the correspondence, it was slanted heavily in favour of Monteith. Golding ...”

“... introduction in its series Poets of the Great War; and in Poetry of the First World War (2013), Tim Kendall chose a fine sequence of extracts – sticking to the verse where he could – even though he reckoned that Jones is ‘by far the most difficult [poet] to anthologise’. He doesn’t say why, but other editors and centenary impresarios seem to ...”

“... George Monbiot – were drowned out by a host of detractors, from within the paper and without: Tim Bale, Nick Cohen, Anne Perkins, Michael White, Martin Kettle, Peter Hain, Alan Johnson, Tony Blair (twice), Jonathan Jones, Frank Field, David Miliband (whose razor-sharp instinct for leadership contests led him to back Liz ...”