'Paris is a modernist tour de force.'


It has been a rich year for poetry in the English-speaking world [...] Three [...] books, all related to poetry, stood out for me [...] Sandeep Parmar's editing and reclaiming of poet Hope Mirrlees's oeuvre in Collected Poems: Hope Mirrlees, spanning from Mirrlees's modernist tour de force Paris (1920), through to poems that are truly dreadful, if still interesting in context. Parmar is a highly skilled literary investigator who knows that a great poem necessarily relies on lesser poems if we want to understand its full import.