RaveThe Guardian (UK)Because Obreht’s characters are so vibrant and individualised, they are never ciphers for particular ways of being. In this novel, letting go and holding on have more in common than we – and the characters – think ... Though The Morningside could be called dystopian, to this reader it feels hopeful in the way it imagines the near future.
Thom Gunn, Ed. Clive Wilmer
PositiveThe GuardianClive Wilmer’s choices in a new Selected are judicious, while his introduction and notes are full of new material culled from Gunn’s letters, notebooks and archives ... Gunn’s life deserves to be written – not just because the mind behind the poems is so absorbingly interesting and so subtly compartmentalised, but because his life spans so many of the major changes in Britain and the US since the war ... Gunn’s poetry, like his life, is a story of inclusions and enlargements – of excess but also of order.
