parsing the possibilities inherent in anything from time's passage to a plastic bag ("up in the attic/with your sad hoard/of baby clothes and love letters"; "deep in a hole/at the end of the garden/wrapped round a house sparrow"), she is drawn most strongly to relationships, with their endless ambiguities, their flaws and shadows and faultlines. Childhood, and our responses to it, exert a particularly magnetic pull. from Sarah Crown: The Guardian: A cow in the lavender bush
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[Eiléan] Ní Chuilleanáin's talent lies in her descriptions. Images flex and crack with revelatory energy; crucially, however, they retain their translucence, electrifying without drawing attention to themselves.
from Sarah Crown: The Guardian: Imagining Odysseus resting on his oar
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Born in 1956 and raised near Glasgow, [Mick] Imlah combined a highly successful, if spare, poetic output with a parallel career in literary journalism. He was editor of the prestigious Poetry Review from 1983 until 1986, and worked at the Times Literary Supplement from 1992, where he was poetry editor. In 2000, he edited the New Penguin Book of Scottish Verse with fellow poet Robert Crawford.
from Sarah Crown: The Guardian: Poet Mick Imlah dies, aged 52
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