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David Herd

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David Herd is a poet, critic and teacher. His recent essays on poetry and politics have appeared in Almost Island, Parallax and PN Review. He lives in Kent.

Praise for David Herd 'Only a handful of English-language poets are writing as uncompromisingly, and as importantly, as Herd, a poetry of both political and linguistic verve.'
Anthony Caleshu, PN Review
'jumbled and energetic, discursive or elliptical, chatty or terse, provocative but playful, haphazard but probing.' The Times

' All Just is a wonderful collection because it has poetry that does what many do not, meditating upon the long-term nature of a ‘holding place’ in which to live'. read more

While contemporary Canadian poetry remains the focus of this series of commentaries, I want today to shift to another neighbouring zone—contemporary British poetry—and look into David Herd’s recently released collection All Just (Carcanet 2012). read more

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David Herd Books by this author: All Just Mandelson! Mandelson! A Memoir About Reviews David Herd is a poet, critic and teacher. His recent essays on poetry and politics have appeared in Almost Island, Parallax and PN Review. He lives in Kent. Praise for David Herd 'Only a handful of English-language poets are writing as uncompromisingly, and as importantly, as Herd, a poetry of both political and linguistic verve.' Anthony Caleshu, PN Review 'jumbled and energetic, discursive or elliptical, chatty or terse, provocative but playful, haphazard but probing.' The Times ' All Just is a wonderful collection because it has poetry that does what many do not, meditating upon the long-term nature of a ‘holding place’ in which to live'. read more While contemporary Canadian poetry remains the focus of this series of commentaries, I want today to shift to another neighbouring zone—contemporary British poetry—and look into David Herd’s recently released collection All Just (Carcanet 2012). read more	Share this... Quick Links Aspects of Portugal Audio Books Carcanet Fiction Carcanet Film Carcanet Poetry Comma Press FyfieldBooks Lintott Press Lives and Letters OxfordPoets PN Review Sheep Meadow Press The Carcanet Blog Let's Gimbal! read more Carcanet New Poetry Showcase: The Audience Writes Back read more John Gallas: A Little Andaluciad read more Carcanet Poetry Showcase: 30th April read more The Manchester Writing Competition 2013 read more Six Sixty-Six: Infinity by Gabriel Josipovici read more
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