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For Real among the TLS's Best Poetry Pamphlets 2014


The entries for this year’s Michael Marks Poetry Pamphlet Awards provide strong evidence that small presses are producing some of the most engaging, innovative and accomplished poetry being published today.

Good to spot a round-up review of the best pamphlets of the year in this week's Times Literary Supplement. Andrew McCulloch's wide-ranging piece takes in memorable slim volumes including Christopher Reid's Yesterday’s News, Blake Morrison's This Poem, Mimi Khalvati's Earthshine, Michael McKimm's Fossil Sunshine, Matthew Sweeney's The Gomera Notebook, Ian McMillan's Jazz Peas, and Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch's Lime and Winter

An honour to see my pamphlet For Real included in the mix:


“I can’t make you feel what I felt” (David Foster Wallace), one of the epigraphs to Ben Wilkinson’s For Real (Smith Doorstop), is a challenge to which Wilkinson rises with considerable success ...

You can read more in the print edition of the TLS, and copies of For Real are available through this site, £5 with free postage.