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Friday, February 19, 2010

New Shoes

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My Reviews Online

Adrienne Rich's Tonight No Poetry Will Serve
An Anthology of Modern Irish Poetry ed. Wes Davis
Angela France's 'Occupation'
Cole Moreton's 'Hungry for Home'
Duncan Wu's 'William Hazlitt: The First Modern Man'
John W. Sexton's 'Shadow's Bloom'
Linda Chase's Not Many Love Poems
Lung Jazz: Young British Poets for Oxfam & Kingston MA
Make Nothing Happen, by Rufo Quintavalle
Michelle McGrane's The Suitable Girl
Nigel McLoughlin's 'Chora'
Pamphlets by Meryl Pugh and Patrick Williamson
Review of a Stinging Fly review I wrote!
Tim Dooley's Imagined Rooms

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Barbara Smith: I am an emerging poet with six kids, one partner, an MA, a portable garret and a large food bill. I'm also a creative writing tutor, reviewer and essayist. And I have two collections out - did I mention that? In my spare time (what's that?) I cook.

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Facts

All Ireland Poetry Day radio interview
Short radio interview with Barbara

My Poems Online

Mallory Poems in Southword 18
Collaborative Poems with Tony Williams: Solstice Tango
Three Poems: Horizon Review 3
Two Poems: nth position
Six Poems: Sentinel Poetry Online
On Not Seeing Inside the Sistine Chapel
From the Land of the Living
Feeding the Calves
The Angel’s Missing Wings

The Angels' Share Reviews

Mike Begnal's Review @ Eyewear
Tintean: Australian Poetry Journal
Featured Poems on peony moon
Review by Dublin Duchess
UK Review by Ben Wilkinson
NZ Review by Kay MacKenzie Cooke

Poets & Other Vices

A. E. Stallings
Barbara's MySpace
Bookarazzi
Carrie Etter
Clive James
Gallery Press
Irish Writers Online
Jack Spicer
Masthead
Nigel McLoughlin
Nuala Ní Chonchúir
Pat Boran
Patrick Chapman
Poetry-Free-For-All
Poets on Fire
Salmon Poetry

My Blog List

Diary of a Housewife

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Magma Poetry » Blog

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