visual-poetics

BOOKS READ IN 2016

• 166) Ground Water - Matthew Hollis (poetry, re read)
• 165) The Blindfold - Siri Hustvedt (fiction)
• 164) Sunshine - Melissa Lee-Houghton (poetry)
• 163) Acts of God - Ellen Gilchrist (fiction, short stories)
• 162) Ghosts - Anna Wigley (poetry)
• 161) Bearings - Isobel Dixon (poetry)
• 160) Domestic Interior - Stephanie Brown (poetry)
• 159) Jam - Cliff Yates (poetry)
• 158) Book of Bones - Kathy Gee (poetry)
• 157) nothing more to it than bubbles - Jane Burn (poetry)
• 156) Fifth Business - Robertson Davies (fiction)
• 155) The Swell - Jessica Mookherjee (poetry)
• 154) Catch - Fiona Sampson (poetry)
• 153) The World's Two Smallest Humans - Julia Copus (poetry)
• 152) Some Perfect Year - Cameron Gearen (poetry)
• 151) Amazon - Catherine Ayres (poetry)
• 150) Serious Concerns - Wendy Cope (poetry)
• 149) What Just Happened - Sara Berkeley Tolchin (poetry)
• 148) Pictures from an Exhibition - Maureen Duffy (poetry)
• 147) Memorandum: Poems for the Fallen - Vanessa Gebbie (poetry)
• 146) The Keys to the Jail - Keetje Kuipers (poetry)
• 145) The Terrible - Daniel Sluman (poetry)
• 144) The Stonegate Devil - Carole Bromley (poetry)
• 143) Grief Is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter (poetry)
• 142) The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly - Sun-mi Hwang (fiction)
• 141) The Game Parade - Maurice Spillane (poetry)
• 140) The Most Beautiful Thing - Satya Robyn (fiction)
• 139) Fragile Houses - Nina Lewis (poetry)
• 138) Coyote - Colin Winnette (fiction)
• 137) Girl on a Train - A.J. Waines (fiction)
• 136) This Changes Things - Claire Askew (poetry)
• 135) Small Nuclear Family - Mel Pryor (poetry)
• 134) The Mother's Tongue - Heid E. Erdrich (poetry)
• 133) Bee Journal - Sean Borodale (poetry, re-read)
• 132) Almanacs - Jen Hadfield (poetry)
• 131) Balzac And The Little Chinese Seamstress - Dai Sijie (fiction)
• 130) The Illusion of Separateness - Simon Van Booy (fiction)
• 129) The Marriage of Heaven and Hell - William Blake
• 128) My Sunshine Away - M.O. Walsh (fiction)
• 127) Lapidary - Rosamund Stanhope (poetry)
• 126) Asylum - Janet Simon (poetry)
• 125) Snowdrops - A.D. Miller (fiction)
• 124) The Art of Falling - Kim Moore (poetry)
• 123) Old School - Tobias Wolff (fiction)
• 122) Pessimism for Beginners - Sophie Hannah (poetry, re-read)
• 121) Wife - Tiphanie Yanique (poetry)
• 120) An Ocean in Iowa - Peter Hedges (fiction)
• 119) Weeds and Wild Flowers - Alice Oswald (poetry, re-read)
• 118) What I Loved - Siri Hustvedt (fiction)
• 117) The Case of the Imaginary Detective - Karen Joy Fowler (fiction)
• 116) Spacecraft - John McCollough (poetry)
• 115) Handwriting - Michael Ondaajte (poetry)
• 114) Crowd Sensations - Judy Brown (poetry)
• 113) Sharp Objects - Gillian Flynn (fiction)
• 112) The Sea - John Banville (fiction)
• 111) The Flower and the Plough - Rachel Piercey (poetry)
• 110) The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky (fiction)
• 109) The Lighthouse - Alison Moore (fiction)
• 108) The Forward Book of Poetry 2017 (poetry)
• 107) He Wants - Alison Moore (fiction)
• 106) Kink and Particle - Tiffany Atkinson (poetry, re-read)
• 105) Little Usherette - Michael Scott (poetry)
• 104) Say Something Back - Denise Riley (poetry)
• 103) The Boy from the Chemist is Here to See You - Paul Farley (poetry, re-read)
• 102) The Tortilla Curtain - T.C. Boyle (fiction)
• 101) Falling Awake - Alice Oswald (poetry)
• 100) The Treekeeper's Tale - Pascale Petit (poetry)
• 99) We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves - Karen Joy Fowler (fiction)
• 98) Doors Opening - Sally Festing (poetry)
• 97) Articles of Twinship - Peter Wallis (poetry)
• 96) Bad Influence Girl - Janet Rogerson (poetry)
• 95) The Sea House - Esther Freud (fiction)
• 94) Dark Pool Ripple - Mike Saunders (poetry)
• 93) Shed - Martin Figura and Natty Peterkin (poetry)
• 92) Instructions for a Heatwave - Maggie O'Farrell (fiction)
• 91) Our Tragic Universe - Scarlett Thomas (fiction)
• 90) Travels in the Scriptorium - Paul Auster (fiction)
• 89) Boyhood - J.M. Coetzee (non fiction)
• 88) One - Sarah Crossan (fiction)
• 87) The End of the World Running Club - Adrian J. Walker (fiction)
• 86) Girl in the Dog-tooth Coat by Zelda Chappel (poetry)
• 85) Groundings by Nicola Warwick (poetry)
• 84) No Map Could Show Them by Helen Mort (poetry)
• 83) The Skin Diary by Abegail Morley (poetry)
• 82) Girl of Ink and Stars by Kiran Milwood Hargrave (fiction)
• 81) Emergency Poet by Deborah Alma (poetry)
• 80) The Beechwood Airship Interviews by Dan Richards (non fiction)
• 79) Hometown - Carrie Etter (fiction)
• 78) Scar - Carrie Etter (poetry)
• 77) The Forward Book of Poetry 2015 (poetry)
• 76) Torn Awake by Forrest Gander (poetry)
• 75) Catulla et al by Tiffany Atkinson (poetry)
• 74) Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera (fiction)
• 73) Tilt by Jean Sprackland (poetry)
• 72) This Can't Be Life by Dana Ward (poetry)
• 71) The Stripping Point by Brian Henry (poetry)
• 70) Daredevils by Shawn Vestal (fiction)
• 69) Kink and Particle by Tiffany Atkinson (poetry)
• 68) Long Haul Travellers - Sheenagh Pugh (poetry)
• 67) Redgrove's Wife - Penelope Shuttle (poetry, re read)
• 66) Prufrock and Other Observations by T.S. Eliot (poetry)
• 65) The Bonniest Companie by Kathleen Jamie (poetry)
• 64) Dr Zeeman's Catastrophe Machine by Martin Figura (poetry)
• 63) On the Saltmarsh - Ruth Valentine (poetry)
• 62) Here and Now by Paul Auster, J.M. Coetzee (non fiction)
• 61) Bones Never Lie - Kathy Reichs (fiction)
• 60) Dissolve to L.A. - James Trevelyan and Enma Wright (poetry)
• 59) Snow Child - Abegail Morley (poetry)
• 58) Primers: Volume One - Maureen Cullen, Lucy Ingrams, Katie Griffiths (poetry)
• 57) Myrtle - Ruth Wiggins (poetry)
• 56) salt. - Nayyirah Waheed (poetry)
• 55) So Many Moving Parts - Tiffany Atkinson (poetry)
• 54) Long Time No See - Hannah Lowe (non fiction)
• 53) True Tales of the Countryside - Deborah Alma (poetry)
• 52) The Soho Leopard - Ruth Padel (poetry)
• 51) Deep Lane - Mark Doty (poetry)
• 50) Our Post-Soviet History Unfolds: Poems - Eleanor Lerman (poetry)
• 49) The Brooklyn Follies - Paul Auster (fiction)
• 48) Mr. Vertigo - Paul Auster (fiction)
• 47) Alphabet - Inger Christensen (poetry)
• 46) Virgin: A History Of Virgin Records - Terry Southern (non fiction)
• 45) Leviathan - Paul Auster (fiction)
• 44) Deep Field - Mark Doty (poetry)
• 43) Bones of the Lost - Kathy Reichs (fiction)
• 42) Skin Divers - Anne Michaels (poetry, re read)
• 41) The Plucking Shed - Jill McEvoy (poetry)
• 40) Cathedral - Raymond Carver (fiction, short stories, re-read)
• 39) The Print Museum - Heidi Williamson (poetry)
• 38) The Life and Death of Sophie Stark - Anna North (fiction)
• 37) The Book of Illusions - Paul Auster (fiction)
• 36) Not in This World - Tracey Herd (poetry)
• 35) Curves to the Apple: The Reproduction of Profiles, Lawn of Excluded Middle, Reluctant Gravities - Rosmarie Waldrop (poetry)
• 34) The Summer Without Men - Siri Hustvedt (fiction)
• 33) Antler - John Clegg (poetry)
• 32) Loudness - Judy Brown (poetry)
• 31) The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway (fiction)
• 30) How We Light - Nick Sturm (poetry)
• 29) A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway (fiction)
• 28) One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (fiction, re-read)
• 27) Actual Cloud - Dalton Day (poetry)
• 26) Out of Everywhere - Maggie O'Sullivan (editor) (poetry)
• 25) The Music of Chance - Paul Auster (fiction)
• 24) The Gathering - Ann Enright (fiction)
• 23) Kid - Simon Armitage (poetry, re-read)
• 22) The Razor's Edge - W. Somerset Maugham (fiction)
• 21) The Remains - Annie Freud (poetry)
• 20) The Good Doctor - Damon Galgut (fiction)
• 19) Shingle Street - Blake Morrison (poetry)
• 18) Elephant and Other Stories - Raymond Carver (fiction, short-stores, re-read)
• 17) Oracle Night - Paul Auster (fiction)
• 16) In the Kingdom of Men - Kim Barnes (fiction)
• 15) A Country Called Home - Kim Barnes (fiction)
• 14) Paul Klee: Painting Music - Hajo Düchting (non fiction)
• 13) With Deer - Aase Berg (poetry)
• 12) The Fifteen Minute Rule - Caroline Buchanan (non fiction)
• 11) Selected Poems - Denise Riley (poetry)
• 10) The Poet, The Lion, Talking Pictures... - C.D. Wright (poetry/essay)
• 9) The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman (fiction)
• 8) The Cherry Tree Cafe - Heidi Swain (fiction)
• 7) Narrow Road to the Interior: And Other Writings - Matsuo Bashō (poetry)
• 6) The Bird Artist - Howard Norman (fiction)
• 5) Passing - Nella Larsen (fiction)
• 4) The Life and Works of Chagall - Nathaniel Harris (non fiction)
• 3) The Terrors - Tom Chivers (poetry)
• 2) Red Dust Road - Jackie Kay (non fiction)
• 1) The Last Pilot - Ben Johncock (fiction)