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Eliot Prize)
MacKay's introduction is itself a masterpiece of literary placement and his intelligent selection of Plomer's work will go far in assuring this twentieth-century master his rightful place in the canon
As an essayist
The title sequence offers the last confessions of a washed-up confidence trickster: a man inspired by the 19th century swindler Gregor MacGregor – the self-titled Cazique of Poyais
mother’s and son’s point of view with a lament about the sister who never made it to New York
Spurious Language by James Appleby roman Eliot Prize)A spurious language exists in books but not outside them. A man at a funeral with ash in his mouth. A rat, a whale off an industrial coast. The recriminations of a body discovered in the street. Appleby's debut pamphlet of poems follows the translations, between languages and experience, that define our interaction with the world. Restless and shifting in form, serious about humour, never shrinking from difficult subject or technique, it was highly
