Jan. 3rd, 2012

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Seems to be a wot-I-read-last-year meme going around. I'm not including re-reads which would take forever, only ones read for the first time. I read quite a lot of new books, because I'm on the Amazon Vine programme which means I get stuff free providing I review it. But a lot of that, I don't especially want to read again. Books I shall re-read include:

Poetry

From the Dark Room by Sue Rose, which I reviewed here

The anthology of Scottish island poetry, These Islands, We Sing ed. Kevin Macneil, which I reviewed here

The City with Horns by Tamar Yoseloff, reviewed here

The Suitable Girl by Michelle McGrane, reviewed here

Other

Sixty-Six Books: 21st-century writers speak to the King James Bible. I couldn't really review this because my daughter Sam Burns is one of the playwrights in it. But it's a great read; the text of the Bush Theatre's mammoth performance of playlets, one engaging with each book of the Bible.

Arctic Convoys 1941-45 by Richard Woodman. This was published in 2007; it's a subject I'm reading my way through out of personal interest (my late father was very proud of his medal from Mr Gorbachev's Russia; his own country never did get around to striking a medal for those involved in one of the most arduous and dangerous of sea campaigns).

The book I'm most looking forward to reading in 2012 (apart from anything by Louise Gluck) is The Book of Idiots by Christopher Meredith. Apart from the fact that the title intrigues, it's promised to be "both serious and blackly comic" and knowing the author, it'll deliver.

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