I just posted my review of Brian Turner’s Here, Bullet. It was the most difficult review I’ve had to write so far.
My initial reaction, some readers will know, was quite negative. But I’m afraid it was overly harsh. There are a lot of complexities in his verses that my initial reaction didn’t pick up on [...]
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Sometimes I’m a bit harsh. At times, too harsh. Such was the case last week when I said that Brian Turner’s book of poems Here, Bullet was more telling than showing. Since then, I have read through the book twice more and each time I see different nuances of his experience that before I hadn’t [...]
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