Review of a remarkable verse novel. Ben Borek: SISSY
This is a review of a remarkable verse-novel that came out last year: Sissy by Ben Borek. The review has appeared in the latest issue of Semicerchio, the Italian journal of 'poesia comparata'. The review is in English. ...
ESSAY ON JOHN WHITWORTH
Review of Shot Silk by Terese Coe
Review of “Accepting the Disaster” by Joshua Mehigan
Review of Auden’s Complete Works: Prose, Vol V, Vol VI
Review Volumes V and VI of Auden’s Prose for the Italian poetry journal, Semicerchio. These are the concluding volumes of a magnificent publishing enterprise devoted to one of the greatest writers of the 20th century.
Tilting the World: Seamus Heaney’s Poem “Miracle”
Essay on Seamus Heaney's Poem "Miracle". Published in Semicerchio Vol. LI, Dec. 2014.
Review of “Girly Gangs” by John Whitworth
Review of "Girly Gangs" by John Whitworth. Published in Semicerchio Vol. L, 2014
“A Window Fiery-Mild”: The Role of Venice in The Book of Ephraim
Originally published in Contemporary Poetry Review on 8 November 2013 Link to original online publication. The Book of Ephraim is a very “literary” work and perhaps never more so than in its Venetian sections (V and W). It is my contention that Section V (the...
G. K. Chesterton’s Father Brown Stories: the Debt to Sherlock Holmes
No fictional detective provides a more obvious contrast to the figure of Sherlock Holmes than G. K. Chesterton’s Father Brown. Where Holmes is keen-eyed, sharp-featured and manifestly shrewd, Father Brown is described as having “a face as round and dull as a Norfolk...
‘Play for Mortal Stakes’ Work and Play in the Poetry of Robert Frost
First published in Semicerchio Vol. XLVIII-XLIX, Jan 2013