Books read in 2015

(in reverse order to which I read them)

1. 1 The Inflectionist Review Anthology of Poetry - John Sibley Williams & A. Molotkov (Editors) (poetry)
2.     Bunny - Selima Hill (poetry)
3.    What Every Body is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People - Joe Navarro (non fiction)
4.    The Notebook - Ágota Kristóf (fiction)
5.    Talking to Ourselves - Andrés Neuman (fiction)
6.     Jutland - Selima Hill (poetry)
7.     Mondeo Man - Luke Wright (poetry)
8.     Red Doc - Anne carson (poetry)
9.     Beauty/Beauty - Rebecca Perry (poetry)
10.     Crescendos - Jake Reynolds (poetry)
11.     Where is My Mask of an Honest Man? by Laura Del-Rivo (fiction, short stories)
12.     The Fire Station by Sarah Barnsley (poetry)
13.     That Smell and Notes from Prison - Sonallah Ibrahim (fiction)
14.     Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Woman and other poems - Grace Nichols (poetry)
15.     She Inserts the Key - Marianne Burton (poetry)
16.     Black Neon - Tony O'Neill (fiction)
17.     Actual Air - David Berman (poetry)
18.     Things to Make and Break - May-Lan Tan (fiction, short stories)
19.     Human Work: A Poet's Cookbook - Sean Borodale (poetry)
20.     The Age of Wire and String Fictions - Ben Marcus (fiction, short stories)
21.     Disinformation - Frances Leviston (poetry)
22.     At the Time of Partition - Moniza Alvi (poetry, re-read)
23.     Beautiful Girls - Melissa Lee Houghton (poetry, re-read)
24.     Infinite Difference: Other Poetries by U.K. Women Poets (poetry, re-read)
25.     House - Myra Connell (poetry)
26.     Poetry in Practice - Brian Keaney and Bill Lucas (non-fiction)
27.     The Merchant of Feathers - Tanya Shirley (poetry)
28.     The Taste of River Water - Cate Kennedy (poetry)
29.  UEA MA Creative Writing Anthologies 2015: Poetry (poetry)
30.     Native Guard - Natasha Trethewey (poetry)
31.     Loop of Jade - Sarah Howe (poetry)
32.     The Very Best of 52: a poem for every week of the year - Jonathan Davidson (editor) (poetry, re.read)
33.     Sooner or Later Frank - Jeremy Reed (poetry)
34.     Blue Movie - Bobby Parker (poetry - re read)
35.     Dolls - Tom Whelan (poetry)
36.     Things to Do Before you Leave Town - Ross Sutherland (poetry)
37.     Some Bright Elegance - Kayo Chingonyi (poetry)
38.     Circus Apprentice - Katherine Gallagher (poetry)
39.     Blood Work - Matthew Siegel (poetry)
40.     The Retrieval System - Maxine Kumin (poetry, re read)
41.     The Knowledge - Robert Peake (poetry, re-read)
42.     Sudden Collapses in Public Places - Julia Darling (poetry)
43.     Shibboleth - Michael Donaghy (poetry)
44.     Lifting the Piano With One Hand - Gaia Holmes (poetry)
45.     Making Nice - Matt Sumell (fiction, short stories)
46.     Wild Gratitude - Edward Hirsch (poetry)
47.     Trilobites & Other Stories - Breece D'J Pancake (fiction, short stories)
48.     Citizen: An American Lyric (poetry)
49.     Kith - Jo Bell (poetry, re read)
50.     See You in Paradise - J. Robert Lennon (fiction, short stories)
51.     Eliza and the Bear - Eleanor Rees (poetry)
52.     Physical - Andrew Macmillan (poetry)
53.     The Good Dark - Ryan Van Winkle (poetry)
54.     When God is a Traveller - Arundhathi Subramaniam (poetry)
55.     School of the Arts - Mark Doty (poetry)
56.     National Poetry Competition Winners' Anthology 2014 (poetry)
57.     Accurate Measurements - Adam White (poetry)
58.     The World Before Snow - Tim Liardet (poetry)
59.     Kim Kardashian's Marriage - Sam Riviere (poetry)
60.     The Organ Box - Matt Howard (poetry)
61.     The Knowledge - Robert Paeake (poetry)
62.     The Whole & Rain-domed Universe - Colette Bryce (poetry)
63.     The Very Best of 52: a poem for every week of the year - Jonathan Davidson (editor) (poetry)
64.     The Next Country - Idra Novey (poetry)
65.     Happiness - Jack Underwood (poetry)
66.     The Bluffer's Guide to Poetry - Nick Yapp (non fiction)
67.     Missing the Eclipse - Joan Hewitt (poetry)
68.     Beautiful Girls - Melissa Lee-Houghton (poetry)
69.     Tell Me the Truth About Love - W.H. Auden (poetry)
70.     My Family and other Superheroes - Jonathan Edwards (poetry)
71.     Moon Whales - Ted Hughes (poetry)
72.     Kumkum Malhotra - Preti Taneja (fiction)
73.     The Hitting Game - Graham Clifford (poetry)
74.     Corpus - Michael Symmons Roberts (poetry)
75.     Langoustine: Fragments of a Philosophical Marine Romance - George Szirtes (poetry)
76.     A Radiance - Bethany W. Pope (poetry)
77.     Bright Travellers - Fiona Benson (poetry)
78.     Small Hands - Mona Arshi (poetry)
79.     Those People - Paul Stephenson (poetry)
80.     Monkey Grip - Helen Garner (fiction)
81.     The Zoo Father - Pascale Petiit (poetry - re-read)
82.     Under the Pier - Selena Godden (poetry)
83.     The Gold Cell - Sharon Olds (poetry)
84.     The Summer Son: A Novel - Craig Lancaster (fiction)
85.     Prayers for the Stolen - Jennifer Clement (fiction)
86.     You Good Thing - Dara Wier (poetry)
87.     Indwelling - Gillian Allnutt (poetry)
88.     Navigation - Jo Bell (poetry)
89.     Grain - John Glenday (poetry)
90.     Permission to Breathe - Michael Laskey (poetry)
91.     The Albertine Workout - Anne Carson (poetry)
92.     The Collected Works of Billy the Kid - Michael Ondaatje (poetry)
93.     Skirrid Hill - Owen Sheers (poetry)
94.     Battleborn - Claire Vaye Watkins (fiction, short stories)
95.     Between Two Windows - Oli Hazzard (poetry)
96.     Blue Movie - Bobby Parker (poetry)
97.     Kith - Jo Bell (poetry)
98.     The Dead Lake - Hamid Ismailov (fiction, re-read)
99.     The Chicago Poems - Karl Sandburg (poetry)
100.     Prester John - John Buchan (fiction)
101.     The Korean Word For Butterfly - James Zerndt (fiction)
102.     Hallelujah for 50ft Women by Raving Beauties Hallelujah for 50ft Women: Poems About Women's Relationship to Their Bodies - edited by The Raving Beauties (poetry)
103.     Duetcetera - Ira Lightman (poetry)
104.     Gumbeaux - Kimberly Vargas (fiction)
105.     The Secret Life of Objects - Dawn Raffel (non fiction)
106.     The Awakening - Kate Chopin (fiction)
107.     Skelelittle - Ira Lightman (poetry)
108.     Party - Jackie Wills (poetry)
109.     One Dead Behind Us - Audre Lorde (poetry)
110.     The Answer to the Riddle Is Me: A Memoir of Amnesia - David Stuart MacLean (non-fiction)
111.     The Half-Finished Heaven - Tomas Tranströmer- translated by Robert Bly (poetry)
112.     Science and Steepleflower - Forrest Gander (poetry)
113.     Trains of Winnipeg - Clive Holden (poetry)
114.     Disclaimer - Renee Knight (fiction)
115.     Fauna - Jacueline Bishop (poetry)
116.     Ten: The New Wave - edited by Karen McCarthy Woolf (poetry)
117.     Soon Every House Will have One - Holly Hopkins (poetry)
118.     The Shared Surface - Jane Monson (poetry)
119.     What the Living Do - Marie Howe (poetry, re-read)
120.     Inventory - Linda Black (poetry)
121.     The Girl On the Train - Paula Hawkins (fiction)
122.     Touching Distances - Diary Poems - Anne Cluysenaar (poetry)
123.  Out of Sheer Rage: In the Shadow of D. H. Lawrence - Geoff Dyer (non fiction)
124.     After This Comes the Food - Sarah Perry (fiction)
125.     The Red Wardrobe - Sarah Corbett (poetry)
126.     The Beautiful and Damned - F. Scott Fitzgerald (fiction)
127.     Stop What You're Doing and Read This! - Various (non fiction)
128.     Woman's Head as a Jug - Jackie Wills (poetry)
129.     Odessa - Patricia Kirkpatrick (poetry)
130.     The Shining Girls - Lauren Beukes (fiction)
131.     The Lichtenberg Figures - Ben Lerner (poetry)
132.     How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2002 - Joy Harjo (poetry)
133.     Life in a Box is a Pretty Life - Dawn Lundy Martin (poetry)
134.     The White Road and Other Stories - Tania Hershman (short stories)
135.     On Purpose - Nick Laird (poetry)
136.     Livid among the Ghostings - Anna Percy (poetry)
137.     My Soul to Take - Yrsa Sigurðardóttir (fiction)
138.     Into the Darkest Corner - Elizabeth Haynes (fiction)
139.     Human Remains - Elizabeth Haynes (fiction)
140.     In the Miso Soup - Ryū Murakami (fiction)
141.     The Whole Story and Other Stories - Ali Smith (fiction - short stories)
142.     A Responsibility to Awe: Poems - Rebecca Elson (poetry)
143.    The Husband's Secret - Liane Moriarty (fiction)
144.     Snow Calling - Agnieszk Studzinska (poetry)
145.     Vauxhall - Gabriel Gbadamosi (fiction)
146.     In the Bee Latitudes - "Annah Sobelman (poetry)
147.     Slow man - J.M. Coetzee (fiction)
148.     The Indian Bride - Karin Fossum (fiction)
149.     The Woods - Harlen Coben (fiction)
150.     The Farm - Tom Rob Smith (fiction)
151.     The Three - Sarah Lotz (fiction)
152.     The Retrieval System - Maxine Kumin (poetry)
153.     The Barking Thing - Suzanne Batty (poetry)

Hearing Poetry

"We listen to a text with numerous ears...Every text has its foreign accents, its strangenesses, and these act like signals, attracting our attention. These strangenesses are our cue. We aren't looking for the author as much as what made the author take the particular path they took, write what they wrote. We're looking for the secret of creation, the same process of creation each one of us is constantly involved with in the process of our lives. Texts are the witnesses of our proceeding. The text opens up a path which is already ours and yet not altogether ours."

Cixous, Hélène, “Conversations” in Seller, Susan, (ed.) Writing Differences: Readings from the Seminar of Hélène Cixous, (Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1988)