Ten Poets Get to the Bottom of Some Grisly Crimes Kathryn Daszkiewicz

Ten Poets Get to the Bottom of Some Grisly Crimes Kathryn DaszkiewiczDo poets make good detectives? Find out by following their feats of deduction, in this set of ten wildly varied accounts of mystery and murder. See them soften the tight lips of witnesses, squeeze the hearts of suspects, and wrestle with the muddledness of the inner life exposed. Watch for their subtle skill, but also for the all too human weaknesses and maddening contradictions that all honest poetry (and all good detective fiction) holds up,

without telling anyone that she is going away

is no populist poet

Inspired by the Sahara of his childhood and devoted from an early age to the vagabond life of the pre-Islamic poets

After a two-year battle the dismissal was overturned

along with assessments of her account of her friendship and falling out with Lawrence

despite its small island status

get to see the world through his eyes and are greatly enriched by the experience

Nigel Pantling takes us to some strange places - the exotic

on the late night service bus

her ear for the music of words is perfect

land to water

Bella Akhmadulina