Daljit Nagra
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The sharp eyed among you will have noticed that, despite previous posts on the Forward prize shortlists, I’ve not yet commented on the results. The main reason for this, aside from the usual time pressures, is that so far I’ve read only one of the shortlisted collections in each of the book lists–John Burnside’s Gift
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It’s August, there’s a downpour a day and Edinburgh has brigadooned into the Radio 4 consciousness once again. Must be festival time. Of course, by “festival” I mean not only the Edinburgh International Festival, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the Edinburgh International Book Festival and the Edinburgh International Film Festival, but the Festival of Spirituality and
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The programme for the the Debut Authors Festival 2007 came through the door this week. This year’s festival has a 100% increase on the 2006 poet count: there are two–namely Daljit Nagra and Annie Freud–but that’s still one down on 2005. Also as with last year, the poets are mainstreamed into the programme alongside the
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Gists and Piths is a newish British poetry and poetics blogzine, which seems to lean towards the experimental. I haven’t read the poetry on the site, but I enjoyed “Some thoughts on the mainstream” and the review of Daljit Nagra‘s book (which I also haven’t read yet). Should be worth following this blog’s development.
Amy Jo Philip 