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Carol Rumens's poem of the weekPoetryAnswers soon become questions of faith as this full-stop-studded poem refuses to mean what the hasty reader might think
Pilgrim Bell
My savior has powers and he needs.
To be convinced to use them.
Up until now he has been.
A no-call no-show. Curious menace.
Like a hornet’s nest buzzing.
On a plane’s wing. Savior. Younger than.
I pretend to be. Almost everyone is.
Younger than I pretend to be. Read More...
BooksReviewFiona MacCarthy is intrigued by two biographies of Clarice Cliff, one of the greatest names in British potteryClarice Cliff
by Lynn Knight 336pp, Bloomsbury, £20
Comprehensively Clarice Cliff
by Greg Slater and Jonathan Brough
448pp, Thames & Hudson, £48
One of the photographs in Lynn Knight's evocative life of Clarice Cliff shows a line-up of nine girls, fashionably dressed underneath their painting pinnies. These are the "Bizarre girls" (pronounced "Bizair"), who decorated Clarice Cliff's " Read More...