The XX win the 2010 Mercury Prize

South London-based band the XX have won this year’s Mercury Prize, and deservedly so. Their self-titled debut beat other shortlisted albums from Mumford and Sons, Biffy Clyro, Dizzee Rascal, Foals, and bookie’s favourite (?!) washed-up has-been Paul Weller – all, I think, would have made deserving winners with the obvious exception of the latter. But the XX are unusually and subtly original in a way none of these artists are: their moody, electronic, skeletal songs are unlike anything else going on in the British pop-music mainstream at the moment. Like all great bands, they manage to sound wholly contemporary while also retaining a timeless feel; atmospheric and haunting, their stuff isn’t showy but it sticks and, I think, will stand up for years to come. I fully recommend buying a copy of their album if you haven’t already. Along with Klaxons, PJ Harvey, Pulp and Elbow, I’d go so far as to say they are perhaps the most deserving winners in the Mercury Prize’s history. But before this becomes Superlative Central, best to let the music speak for itself… above is the video to their single ‘Islands’; a live version of which I posted here back in October '09. Enjoy.

Moonlight: after Paul Verlaine

Moonlight

after Paul Verlaine


So what of that night we ended up in some club,
dancing for the first time in years?
Again and again I was playing the chump
in the glitter of your perfect elegance.

You know I’ve this knack for self-sabotage –
trashing anything close to happiness –
though the countersunk bulbs in the ceiling
were stars, blinking back at your radiance.

How we stumbled into morning’s silence,
the full moon’s light like a torch left on,
setting off the sobs of the Peace Gardens’
fountains, and that snatch of purest birdsong.

poem by Ben Wilkinson

This poem is part of an ongoing portraiture project, in which I have drawn on the works of Paul Verlaine (1844-1896) to produce new poems of my own. It is also an attempt, in some small way, to honour and revivify interest in a great French poet whose work deserves to be held in higher regard. Other poems from this project have so far appeared in Poetry Review ('Joie de Vivre'; 'October') and the Times Literary Supplement ('The Nightingale'; 'The Young Fools').

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Poetry Reading Tomorrow

Poetry reading with Simon Armitage

featuring short readings from Chris Jones, Liz Cashdan, Matthew Clegg, and Ben Wilkinson

Wednesday 6 May, 6.30–8pm

St George's Church, St George's Terrace (off Broad Lane), Sheffield



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A poetry reading by Simon Armitage, one of the most popular and prominent poets of his generation. His nervy, slangy, chatty poems explore depths of language with vitality and a sharp vision of the North, its classes, dialects and living cultures.

There will be book stalls in St George's Church before and after the poetry readings. The guest authors will be available after the readings to sign books purchased at the event. Signed copies of books by Simon Armitage, Ciaran Carson and Carol Ann Duffy may also be ordered from Rhyme & Reason Booksellers who will provide a list of available titles on request (enquiries@rhyme-reason.co.uk).

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Shadows

The scene’s one of wandering back to a tent, through a field of thousands, flag posts and lamp-lit; the pitch hasn’t moved but their damned if they can find it, more having cropped up in makeshift walkways in-between. The sky’s the final shade from its fullest darkness, throwing clouds across itself like fishing boats, streamlined by currents. Campfire smoke drifts across the site, a half-cut mob of guys attempt to resurrect some fading chant, and a man is running in the inimitable manner of one desperately in need of the toilet. Morning darkens. Now one of the crew mutters something to himself, another sparks a roll-up with the same Zippo that was held to the wall of sound and fading whine conjured not an hour ago; a stack of Marshall amps and the wielding of a custom-built, sunburst Fender Strat… If there is a more direct way back it escapes them, left instead as they are circling in on the plot that, altered by darkness, will finally return to the mind as the changed yet half-familiar face of an old acquaintance might… In the meantime, there are only the torches of camps illuminating their puppetry of contents, and the names the imagination might give to the shadows of intimacy, argument and practicality that flicker so suddenly across them… Wings; The Last Dance; Snakes; A Parting Kiss; This is Something…

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Review: Mark Waldron's The Brand New Dark

The late American comic Bill Hicks once infamously began a stand-up routine with the deadpan line “If you work in advertising or marketing, kill yourself now”. He may well have made an exception for someone like Mark Waldron, a poet who writes adverts for a living. His debut, The Brand New Dark, is far removed from the clichés and superficiality of modern commercialism; witty, subversive, often darkly comic poems which are full of unusual images and curious turns of phrase. But the world which Waldron deftly unpicks is also a bleakly decadent and harrowingly pertinent one, uncovering “The King … in his counting house / not counting out his money, but making some swanky / kind of love to his secretary”, while elsewhere, a man dressed in a Mickey Mouse suit at Disneyland becomes a chilling metaphor for our increasingly isolated and virtual lives.

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Overall, there is much to admire about The Brand New Dark: only a few squib-like failures occur where the humour misfires, dotted about an otherwise wide selection of engaged and engaging poems addressing modern life in all of its complexity; like the manatees that close the book, “arranging and rearranging themselves / into what we might call stories”. It confirms Mark Waldron as an emerging talent to watch.


first published in the Times Literary Supplement

Charlie Brooker's Newswipe

A bit late catching up with this, but flicking through BBC iPlayer in a brief fit of boredom last week I noticed that Charlie Brooker is back on our screens with Newswipe - a series following on from the brilliant Screenwipe. Except instead of taking satirical and pessimistic swipes at the crap on TV, Newswipe takes a Day Today-esque look at - you guessed it - the news, or rather, the way news is covered by the likes of BBC, ITV and Channel 4 these days.

The clip above is from the first part of the first episode, and for those who like the look of it, the third installment is on BBC4 tomorrow (Wednesday) at 10.30pm.

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Just One Question: Simon Armitage and Glyn Maxwell

With the Hay Festival in full swing the Guardian have devised an interesting little article that I guess must appear in one of the paper's supplements today (almost always reading the Guardian online means I've pretty much forgotten the format of the thing). The gist of it is as follows: one 'sharp and intelligent mind' from the festival asks another just one question, and the responses (as indeed the questions) vary from the insightful and illuminating to the downright ridiculous and hilarious. See Will Self's question to Deborah, Dowager Duchess of Devonshire on the ancient aurochs of Chatsworth, for example.

Anyway, here's poet and novelist Simon Armitage showing his northern roots, questioning fellow poet Glyn Maxwell:

Armitage: Q. Where's that 20 quid I loaned you in Reykjavik?

Maxwell: A. I put it all on Londoners one day electing Boris Johnson to run their city. We're millionaires, man.

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NB. In other news, my critical perspective of Simon Armitage's work is now up on the British Council's Contemporary Writers database. Find it here.

Review: John McCullough's The Frost Fairs

John McCullough's debut collection introduces a writer acutely aware of poetry's transformative power, its ability to question assumptions and subtly shift perspective. His musical work offers up an array of voices – speaking statues, spoons in a drawer, men sent to bed for a year "trialling pills for weightless conditions" – sometimes playing for laughs, but always thoughtful and touching. It also adopts various styles: from the sensuous lyricism of "The Light of Venus", which views love through the lens of astrophysics, to the witty chit-chat of "The Long Mile", drawing on Thom Gunn's brilliant "Night Taxi" in its cab driver persona while veering into weirder territory. Gunn can often seem the presiding influence here: sharp yet compassionate, formal yet nimble, the poems glitter with slang and modern culture while maintaining an engaging seriousness. Energy and abundance aside, though, it is the dark, quietly attentive poems that impress most, like the fallen jackdaw in one poem, "its neck twisted as though broken / from straining to see the incredible."


first published in The Guardian, Saturday 13 August 2011

Reviews: Jacob Polley & Colette Bryce

For those interested, my review of Picador poet Jacob Polley's first novel will appear in this coming week's TLS (June 12 2009).

In the just-published issue of Stand, vol 9 (1), I'm informed that my review of Colette Bryce's third book of poems, Self-Portrait in the Dark, also appears.

Days and Nights in W12

Jack Robinson
DAYS AND NIGHTS IN W12
112pp. CB Editions. Paperback, £7.99
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Jack Robinson's "ramble through the streets of London W12" (that postcode area otherwise known as Shepherd's Bush) is the sort of book which gets you writing a little review about the thing even though you've probably more urgent - I hesitate to say important - things to be doing. Mainly because it makes a real virtue of watching and waiting; it's the importance of being idle, but equally attentive to the weird, wonderful, mixed-up everyday metropolis that tends to pass us by as we hurry here, there and wherever. Each of Days and Nights hundred-odd pages features a black-and-white photo taken by Robinson, followed by a concise, thoughtful, often spot-on paragraph riffing on a chance scene, a snatch of conversation, an object, a character... anything that might grab the attention of our (almost) anonymous, alternative tour guide. Though as a critic quoted on the backcover says, you needn't really know W12, or even London, to enjoy the read; "it's about every urban space, including the one in your head." This isn't dry or wearyingly melancholic stuff, either. For every gentle lament or grim snap of wasteland/empty construction site, there's a reflection on lucky happenstance, moments of happiness (however fleeting) and people's resilience, and a fair few genuinely funny moments. Take a reflection on daydreaming and being "anywhere but here", in which the narrator makes his little confession: "I once sat for ten minutes in a car staying resolutely calm in front of a sign I read as DO NOT PANIC HERE, until I glanced in the wing mirror and saw the traffic warden approaching". Or modern life's frustrations condensed into the sort of moment surely anyone can relate to, accompanied by a snap of garden gnomes on "3 for 2" offer:

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Days and Nights in W12 swings pretty much effortlessly between the commonplace and the lesser-known telling fact; quietly offering its stories from the lives of others alongside imaginative, more idle speculations. I'd call it a collection of prose-poems but that'd be truly lazy: sure they're precise and atmospheric pieces, even lightly musical at times, but they have a disarming casualness, shifting tone, and beautiful throwaway quality that I reckon any kind of poem, prose or otherwise, would find quite difficult to match. It's a book that you can easily devour (as I did) in one sitting - perhaps with a packed lunch in a park on a warm, less-than-overcast day - but one you can come back to too, I'd wager. And of course, it gives the gift of leaving you that bit more attentive to your own patch - wandering past and thinking on that throwback of a phonebox, some graffitied bus-shelter advert, or the dapper old guy always walking his lively Jack Russell, same time each day - which is no bad thing at all.

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Praise be to The New Yorker, that most revered of American cultural magazines, and to Paul Muldoon, it's poetry editor, who recently appeared on The Colbert Report, reading his poem 'Tea' and indulging Colbert's gently mocking, wry brand of humour.

Why? Because I've just found a brilliant poem by Christian Wiman on the publication's website, which conjured that instant, wonderful sensation of lifting the top of my head clean off and smashing the frozen sea of daily routine, as Emily Dickinson and Kafka would have it. I seriously encourage you to read it.

And while you're there, take a look at Don Paterson's excellent poem 'Rain', the title piece from his new Faber collection due later this year. That's another which transports you somewhere else in its cinematic sweep - a welcome detour and distraction from whatever work deadlines are looming over you this afternoon. Humorous and seriously thought-provoking - you can't ask for much more than that.

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Add character and charm to your homes exterior with Coach House Accents signature dcor windows for garage doors. Mimicking the look of real accent windows, these dcor windows are constructed of automotive-grade ASA composite resin and opaque Plexiglas to improve curb appeal without compromising on safety and security.

Signature Dcor Windows
At a Glance:
Fits most standard raised- and flat-panel garage doors of any material

Dimensions: 45-1/2 inches by 16-5/8 inches by 3/8 inches

Backed by a 15-year limited warranty

Made entirely in the U.S.A.




Coach House Accents' signature dcor windows mimic the look of real windows without sacrificing safety or security (view larger).Fits Most Garage Doors
Coach House Accents signature dcor windows have been designed to be compatible with as many standard garage door styles as possible, regardless of material (aluminum, steel, wood, etc.) or paneling (short or long raised panel, vertical ribs, or flat panel). Be sure to measure the outer edges of the stamping (installation) area of your door to determine that the full width does not exceed 45-1/2 inches and the full height does not exceed 16-5/8 inches. With a 3/8-inch width, installation of the dcor windows does not affect the operation of the garage door as it opens and closes.

Easy to Install
The signature dcor windows are easily installed in just a few steps with standard household tools. The included paper installation template can be adhered to the garage door with tape to serve as a guide. Drill holes where indicated on the guide and remove the protective film from the back of the windows, then insert the Phillips screws into the frame and rubber washers on the back side. Simply align the screws with the drilled holes in the garage door and tighten.

Low Maintenance, High Style
Available in white, almond, and sandstone colors (and also readily paintable), these sophisticated adornments complement any homes exterior design aesthetic. Latex and polyurethane paint can be used to better match your homes color scheme (latex primer is not recommended). The dcor windows are conveniently cleaned with nonabrasive solvent and a soft cloth.

What's in the Box
Set of two Coach House Accents signature dcor window frames with Plexiglas inserts, 12 Phillips 1-1/2-inch screws, 12 rubber washers, and full-size paper mounting template with instructions.

These before-and-after examples display how installing signature dcor windows can add character and curb appeal to your home's exterior (click each to enlarge).

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National Hardware V7643 Garage Door Locking T-Handle, 5/16-Inch Square Shaft by 3-3/4-Inch, Chrome

Features

• Also can be used on many camper tops
• Chrome finish
• Shaft is 5/16-Inch by 3-3/4-Inch
• Read and understand all instructions before beginning work

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Review: John Whale's Waterloo Teeth

The opening poem in John Whale’s debut collection concerns a species of chameleon-like octopus: a flexible and capable creature, we are told, “at the invertebrate zenith”. With “three pumping hearts” and “no rigid form”, its appeal to Whale is clear enough: his poetic voice revels in its own adaptability, switching between scientific jargon, emotional verve, and subtler, insinuating tones. This allows for a smorgasbord of subjects, and lends Waterloo Teeth an intellectual range that is beyond most slim volumes: moving from the eerie yet touching quatrains of “Mary Toft”, who amusingly ruined the reputations of several eminent eighteenth-century physicians by fooling them into thinking she had given birth to rabbits, to the tumbling rhythms and blunt close of “Mimicries”, which catalogues birds imitating modern technological sounds.

Beneath the book’s surface variety, however, a handful of recurrent themes emerge. Whale is a professor of Romantic literature, so it is not surprising to find his work haunted by the presence of Wordsworth & Co, as well as the celebrities, politics and attitudes of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries more broadly. Titles such as “Lines on the Death of Mary Wollstonecraft” and “Brioche” jump out; a long poem, “Sugar”, harbours a Romantic sensibility in its associative reflections; and the grim title poem examines the mercenary practice, common to the age, of pulling sets of teeth from fallen soldiers. Even the lone apple core that garnishes the collection’s jacket stems from a vignette which reworks an entry from Dorothy Wordsworth’s Grasmere Journal. But the book is not without cohesive focus, as each poem attempts to bridge the gap between our refined sensibilities – sentimentalized bite marks in an apple – and the blunt, clinical facts of our corporeal lives: “a jet of arterial blood” bursting from Jean-Paul Marat’s chest; Lady Hamilton’s recurring dream of “Freddy drenched in Flanders”.

That said, Whale’s protean interests can get the better of him. Cwm Idwal, a hanging valley in Snowdonia is surely a spectacular landscape and a natural wonder, but Whale’s paean to it lacks any real consequence. A shame, then, that his book’s latter half is padded out with these dull landscapes, when his more natural milieu is the drama and diversity of life as it was, and is, variously lived. For as much of Waterloo Teeth reveals, it is here that Whale excels; revivifying the “phantom life / which lies beneath our feet.”


first published in the Times Literary Supplement

Liftmaster Garage Opener Replacement Lens Cover Part #108D34

Features

• Genuine Liftmaster replacement part, compatible with two light operators
• Compatible with the following Liftmaster models: 1050, 1150, 1250, 1265, 1060, 1160, 1260, 320WD, 300WD, 310WD, 1260LK, 220WD, 1270, 1280 and 1280R
• Replacement lens cover
• Part number is 108D34

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Genie GER-2 Garage Door Opener Universal Emergency Release Kit

Features

• Compatible with ALL brands of garage door openers
• Keyed emergency release, perfect for enclosed vault type of garages
• Will let you open the garage door in case of a power failure or if you forget your remote
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Includes Key, Cable, Instructions, 1 Year Limited Warranty

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