A review of “Sunken Island"

We are pleased to share a review of The Bournbrook Press’s Sunken Island: An Anthology of British Poetry in The Brazen Head by Derek Turner, the site’s Editor.

Mr Turner writes:

“This book’s eight contributors are not ‘blind to the country’s flaws’, and this gives this collection both muscle and a certain wryness of outlook notably absent from some patriotic poets, like Rupert Brooke or Henry Newbolt.

“There is no bombast to be found in Sunken Island, nor sentimentality, nor Patience Strong-style platitudes.

The two prevailing emotions are love, plus loss – an odd echo of Hugh Kenner’s A Sinking Island(1988), which concluded that ‘there’s no longer an English literature’.”

Read the full review here.