William Oxley’s poem describes being asked for change by a beggar at King’s Cross and the uneasy choice between giving and refusing in a money-driven world.
William Oxley reviews Peter Abbs’s poetry collection Viva la Vida, noting its religious longing after a strict upbringing, its sequence on Nietzsche’s madness, and its personal love poems.
William Oxley reviews Sebastian Barker’s Damnatio Memoriae, praising his lyric ear and the meditative sequences that wrestle with God, faith and death, written by a former humanist turned Catholic.
