Dec 20, 2020
"How savage our moments of live, how sacred." A special re-issue for the end of 2020. We'll be back on Jan. 10!
Luis Alberto Urrea on his selection:
Annie Dillard’s books came to me in one of those writerly seasons of transition. I could dip into any of her first volumes and get lost. It’s the way she conflates...
Dec 6, 2020
Alice Oswald on her selection:
John Clare's Northborough Sonnets (written between 1832 and 1837) are designed as astonishments rather than thoughts... Fourteen lines, ordered into separable couplets, each couplet containing a different moment - these poems are like portable fresh air and I have been reading them every...
Nov 15, 2020
Hanif Abdurraqib on his selection:
This poem is an interesting choice for me, as someone who is always too anxious to engage in the act of singing at any karaoke night, but there is something I love about being present during a karaoke night. And what I think I love about seeing the kind of excitement that fans through...
Nov 15, 2020
Alan Hollinghurst on his selection:
I read “September 1, 1939,” the date being that of Hitler’s invasion of Poland, which marks the start of the Second World War. It’s a poem Auden himself was dissatisfied with, he cut it, changed some important wording, and later refused to reprint it, feeling it was...