The Poetry Pill

Little as the Pill believes in universal or non- contingent standards of “quality,” this list could not, in good conscience, bear the title...

As promised, at long last, a few words about Kathleen Graber’s The Eternal City . The first few of which have to do not with the book itself...

You see, the thing is, the Pill has had trouble getting around to the prose he’s meant to write for this here review-type blog, the problem ...

So here I was all set to start a post about the exhaustion, enervation, etc., of the confessional tradition and a recommendation that poets ...

The Pill is back from two busy and pleasurable weeks in Ireland and glad to see that you’ve all entertained yourselves and each other in th...

Are there more poets per capita in Northern Ireland than in most other places? I'm not sure. But the density of quality poetry produced ...

The Pill is, as a rule, averse to superlatives. I have, when pressed, been heard to aver that Ardbeg is the best single malt Scotch whisky ...