For memorial reasons, I’ve read, to myself and, occasionally, aloud to assembled others, a lot of Frank O’Hara this year. I read quite a lot of O’Hara most years. And I’ve read a little Robert Hass more days than not.
This list recognises the other poetry collections I’ve read and enjoyed most in the past twelve months.
- Rachael Allen : Faber New Poets 9 (2014)
- Edwina Attlee : The Cream (Clinic, 2016)
- Sam Buchan-Watts : Faber New Poets 15 (2016)
- Matthew Caley : Rake (Bloodaxe, 2016)
- Maura Dooley : The Silvering (Bloodaxe, 2016)
- Janet Fisher : Life and Other Terms (Shoestring, 2015)
- Marilyn Hacker : A Stranger’s Mirror (Norton, 2015)
- Lee Harwood : The Books (Longbarrow Press, 2011)
- Ian McMillan : Jazz Peas (Smith/Doorstop, 2014)
- Helen Mort : No Map Could Show Them (Chatto, 2016)
- Peter Sansom : Careful What You Wish For (Carcanet, 2015)
- Judi Sutherland & Jim Burns : Dark Matter (The Black Light Engine Room Press, 2016)
- Barry Wallenstein : Drastic Dislocations (New York Quarterly Boks, 2012)
- Matthew Welton : The Number Poems (Carcanet, 2016)
Some Days You Do ... 