#Shortlisted T.S. Eliot Prize 2023

 

Finish: 18.04.2024
Title: I Think We’re Alone Now (2023)
Genre: 29 poems  (82 pg)
Rating: F

 

1. Some call it ‘delightfully difficult’.
2. Some call it ‘ambitious’.
3. I call it….disappointing.
4. Sometimes when you start to dislike a book, you begin
5. finding fault with all kinds of things that you wouldn’t otherwise.
6. This book is not what I consider “shortlisted T.S. Eliot Prize” quailty.
7. I could have accepted it …I’ve accepted far worse before!
8. …but I found no dazzling images only spurts of hackneyed clichés
9. …especially in “Audio Commentary”  4 pages with 101 sentenances.
10. Is that poetry?
11. Ms Parry has potential…being shortlisted demonstrates that
12. …but did not show it to me today.

 

READ:

• Self-Portrait as Othello – Jason Allen-Paisant  (35 poems) – REVIEW  Winner T.S. Eliot Prize 
• The Map of the World – E. Ni Chuilleanáin – REVIEW
• A Change in the Air – J. Clarke (55 poems) – REVIEW