Today people all over the world will come together to think about World War I and those who fought in it. How could we remember better? And what can we do with remembering? An essay by Andrew Johnston 1. The driver picked me up from the station at Bailleul, a sleepy town with one of those … Read more
All week this week the Spinoff Review of Books is devoted to poetry in the build-up to the Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day on Friday. Yesterday we ran an essay by Helen Hogan, editor of 1970s anthologies of poetry by New Zealand college students; today, an essay by distinguished poet Andrew Johnston, who Hogan published when he … Read more
New verse by Paris-based writer Andrew Johnston. Deuteronomy South of the past, dreaming she was still alive, Echo came in low, under the dateline, over the mud flats, mirroring. To see the plane kiss its shadow she would have to be somewhere else but she sees it, she sees everything kissing everything. She was … Read more