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Jack Barron
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Teaching Associate, University of Cambridge.
Literary Editor, The Arts Desk.
2024 Anthony Burgess/Observer Prize for Arts Journalism Shortlistee.
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And:
Jack Barron on the poems and letters of Seamus Heaney (@faberbooks.bsky.social).
David McAllister on The Complete C Comics by Joe Brainard.
Paul Hammond on The Land of Sweet Forever by Harper Lee.
Guy Stagg on The Silver Book by Olivia Laing.

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December 1, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Burlington Contemporary - Reviews - Interstices
In 2014 the French-Norwegian poet Caroline Bergvall published Drift, a wayward translation of the tenth-century anonymous Anglo-Saxon poem The Seafarer and a response to the tragedy of the so-called ‘...
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September 12, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Out now! Literary Review's September 2025 issue, featuring

@willtosh.bsky.social on Christopher Marlowe
@claireharman.bsky.social on Muriel Spark
Seamus Perry on Tennyson
Lucy Hughes-Hallett on the stiff upper lip
Patrick Wilcken on Easter Island

and much, much more: literaryreview.co.uk
Literary Review - For People Who Devour Books
In the Current Issue: Will Tosh on Christopher Marlowe * John Banville on Christopher Clarke * Claire Harman on Muriel Spark * Seamus Perry on Tennyson * Lucy Hughes-Hallett on the stiff upper lip * L...
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September 1, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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★★★★ A 'lost' book reconfirms Tom Raworth’s legacy as one of the great lyric poets writes Jack Barron, on Cancer @carcanet.bsky.social theartsdesk.com/books/tom-ra...
Tom Raworth: Cancer review - truthfulness
I recently heard a BBC Radio 4 presenter use the troubling phrase: "Not everyone agreed on the reality of that." Once the domain of Andre Breton’s Manifeste du surréalisme, such sentiments are now ala...
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July 4, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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Reviews: Guy Stagg on Flesh by David Szalay; @jackbarron93.bsky.social on Electric Dreams at Tate Modern; Zadie Loft on Universality by Natasha Brown; Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou on Ithell Colquhoun.

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April 1, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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Reviews: Guy Stagg on Flesh by David Szalay; @jackbarron93.bsky.social on Electric Dreams at Tate Modern; Zadie Loft on Universality by Natasha Brown; Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou on Ithell Colquhoun.

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March 25, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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"Childishness & adult language-use are persistently, & with vicious irony, switching scales: ‘pointing it up while scaling it down.’ This can induce wild laughter, but also unbearable gravity."

@jackbarron93.bsky.social on the poetry of J.H. Prynne

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All Jokes Aside
Review 31 is an online literary review.
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February 13, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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And lo: here we are, on Bluesky. Pls repost to spread the word!
February 13, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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review31.co.uk/essay/view/1... my review of J. H. Prynne's latest
All Jokes Aside
Review 31 is an online literary review.
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February 10, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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my review of Ian Patterson's Collected in the latest @pnreview.bsky.social very pleased to be included
February 5, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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From Michael Schmidt's editorial in PN Review 281, our January - February 2025 issue.

Read the full article on the Carcanet Substack at the link below. 🔗
https://open.substack.com/pub/carcanet/p/pn-review-281-editorial?r=pgoc1&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
February 5, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Alongside this list, we’ve made all the reviews from this year’s print issues available to read for free on our website. These are linked to the contributor’s name under their Book of the Year selection, and you can find them here: thelondonmagazine.org/the-best-boo...
The Best Books of 2024 - The London Magazine
Fiction, history, photography and essays: here is the list of TLM's Best Books of 2024, as chosen by our contributors.
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December 16, 2024 at 3:49 PM
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We are excited to announce The London Magazine’s Best Books of 2024, as chosen by twenty-one of our contributors. Selections include Our Evening by Alan Hollinghurst, Adam by Gboyega Odubanjo and A Question of Palestine by Edward Said.

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The Best Books of 2024 - The London Magazine
Fiction, history, photography and essays: here is the list of TLM's Best Books of 2024, as chosen by our contributors.
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December 16, 2024 at 3:33 PM
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The Best Books of 2024 - The London Magazine
Fiction, history, photography and essays: here is the list of TLM's Best Books of 2024, as chosen by our contributors.
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December 16, 2024 at 3:24 PM
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★★★★ Book: Jon Fosse - Morning and Evening

Drawing out the strange affinities between the spoken, the unspoken, and the unspeakable, a new edition of the Norwegian's 'Morgon og Kveld' captivates @jackbarron.bsky.social
Jon Fosse: Morning and Evening review - after thoughts
Jon Fosse talks a lot about thinking. He also thinks – hard – about talking. His prolific and award-winning career in poetry, prose, and drama, might be said, in fact, to unfold a digressive single th...
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November 20, 2024 at 9:15 AM