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Week 10 UK Chapbook Chart 2017 – Jörg Bernig
New to the UK Chapbook chart and straight into the Number 1 slot is Jörg Bernig with flower angel ship. A chapbook of selected poems (several previously unpublished) by prize-winning novelist and poet Bernig, from Saxony in Germany, with translations into … Continue reading
Week 8 UK Chapbook Chart 2017 – Olena Kalytiak Davis
Olena Kalytiak Davis returns to the No.1 position on the UK Chapbook Chart with On The Kitchen Table From Which Everything Has Been Hastily Removed. A new work from America’s wildest poet of the self, with her confessional poems which refuse to yield. She uses language as … Continue reading
Week 7 UK Chapbook Chart 2017 – Kneel Downe
“…an angry punk in a Victorian world of safe and sentimental verse…” Not only does Kneel Downe secure the number 1 spot on the UK Chapbook Chart with #KillAllPoets but two more of his chapbooks make the top ten too. As noisy and … Continue reading
Week 6 UK Chapbook Chart 2017 – Kneel Downe
“…an angry punk in a Victorian world of safe and sentimental verse…” Kneel Downe steps up with a new number 1 on the UK Chapbook Chart with #KillAllPoets. As noisy and incongruous as the man himself, #KillAllPoets started on Twitter … Continue reading
Week 5 UK Chapbook Chart 2017 – Tony Hoagland
Once again Hard Rain by Tony Hoagland graces the number 1 position on the UK Chapbook Chart. Hard Rain is consistently the most popular of chapbooks in the UK and remains a favourite amongst readers throughout the world. Tony Hoagland is still little known … Continue reading
Week 4 UK Chapbook Chart 2017 – Gary Maxwell
Chapbook 2011 from Gary Maxwell is a new entry at Number 1 this week. It teases with ambiguity, the poet continually asking questions of us. Although he introduces a healthy amount of scepticism he never treads into the cynical marshes which would suck … Continue reading
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