Poetry Magazines - The best collection of poetry magazines online - Simon Armitage

BOOKS
* A Clockwork Orange : Anthony Burgess. O my brothers.
* The Dante Club : Matthew Pearl. Literary whodunnit. Clever.
* Truth And Beauty : The Story Of Pulp : Mark Sturdy. In-depth story of one of the most unlikely pop geniuses of all time.
* The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon : Kingy. Alright, I’ll put him down for a few months now. But this was a good, eerie short.
* The Last English King : Julian Rathbone. Interesting dramatisation of the years just before 1066. I’ll have to wait another few years before I write my epic trilogy then. Gah.
* The Essential : Spike Milligan. Needle nardle noo.
* Complete Plays : Sarah Kane. Astonishing stuff. RIP.
* Heart Of Darkness : Joseph Conrad. And now I can watch “Apocalypse Now”, finally…

SOUNDS
* Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues : Robert Johnson
* A Grand Don’t Come For Free : The Streets. A grower. May yet be better than “...Pirate Material”. And I don’t care if he hates poets. He is one. Yes yes, oh yea.
* Readymades : Chumbawamba. Folk trance? Coo.
* Franz Ferdinand : Franz Ferdinand. Ich heisse super-fantastich indeed. I wish I had shirts like that.
* i : The Magnetic Fields. Top-notch plummy voiced US orchestro-pop.

MOVING PICTURES
* Shaun Of The Dead (2004, dir.Edgar Wright)  As if Pegg could miss. Zom-rom-com (TM).
* Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (2004, dir.Michel Gondry) Another smasher in an already superlative year for film.
* Chopper (2000, dir.Andrew Dominik)  “Oh, was I being rude?” Absolutely superb, and a mesmerising performance from yer man Bana.
* A Mighty Wind (2003, dir. Christopher Guest)  The folk Spinal Tap. Literally.

MISCELLANEOUS
* The Lake District. It’s where it’s at, baybeh.
* Broadband. It’s the new thinking.
* Pirates – this year’s smasher from Ludamus Theate Co. Arrr matey.
* Norwegian Kings of the Twelfth Century.
* “Delicate Elephant” film/book from MK’s own Darren Gray.