Blog officially populated

Now that this blog is well and truly underway, I can relax. Hope you enjoy reading some of those reviews.

This is a little old now, but I see Carol Ann Duffy has been made Poet Laureate. That she's the first woman, and the first openly gay person, to have held the position, are cool firsts, but more to the point she is an amazing poet.

I'd never read any of her stuff - at a conservative all boys school, she didnt come up on the curriculum, surprisingly enough. When I heard the news, though, I sought out the five or six of her poems that are available online. What a turn of phrase she has. It's unbelievable. I have to get a copy of 'The World's Wife'.

How about this from Mrs Lazarus:

'I breathed/his stench; my bridegroom in his rotting shroud,/moist and dishevelled from the grave's slack chew'

More, more. I want more.