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Samarkand Book
This reader remembers thirtysomething Kate Clanchy's first collection of poetry: Slattern. As marvellously readable as it was gorgeously bittersweet, full of sardonic, emotive lines, between 1996 and 1997 Slattern rightly won just about every prize going for books by debutante British poets. Such a beginning was always going to be hard to match. f poetry really is the new rock-n-roll, then Samarkand is the equivalent of "the difficult second album." Clanchy has held her position, even if this new volume perhaps lacks the same freshness of tone as Slattern. Some of her similes are as lyrically acute as ever: a fallen wasp's nest is like a "burst city of the poor", a much-loved grandfather's bald scalp is as "grand and mottled as a planet." Individual poems also stand out: … read more...
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