Literary reviews by Tim Love.
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Showing posts with label 'The Mays 23'. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 'The Mays 23'. Show all posts

Saturday, 25 February 2017

"The Mays 23" by Varsity Publications

The 2015 collection of Oxford and Cambridge University students' work, with a twist. This time "segregation of poetry, prose and visual arts will be removed" (p.i). Readers are told that "as you move around inside these covers ... you will form a poetry of your own" (p.ii). I'd call much of the content on the earlier pages avant-garde - I didn't get/like it. The graphics/text mix was the easiest aspect of it to understand.

I liked Emma Levin's "Cheese-branding". "Our Body" and "All in the family" were ok too.