Martha Sprackland

• The Caught by the River Book of the Month: March

  A Line Made By Walking by Sara Baume (Heinemann, hardback, 320 pages. Out now and available here.) Review by Martha...

  11th March 2017

• WAKE UP: A review of Jacob Polley's 'Jackself'

  Jackself by Jacob Polley (Picador, paperback, 80 pages. Out now and available here.) Review by Martha Sprackland who’s at the...

  16th January 2017

• Hey, Who Really Cares? - a poem by Martha Sprackland

  after the song by Linda Perhacs & Oliver Nelson Birds in the wire cage of an open shop singing of...

  11th January 2017

• Where I'm Calling From: Manzanares

  Words and pictures: Martha Sprackland A river does flow through the centre of Madrid. It’s funny, but when I was...

  11th December 2016

• Where I'm Calling From: Religious Melancholy

  Words and pictures: Martha Sprackland London St Pancras – Paris Gare du Nord I’m on an evening Eurostar train from...

  14th October 2016

• Mend and make do: a poem by Martha Sprackland

  The arm of my sunglasses – now they are so level even my crooked face parades a certain symmetry. This...

  30th September 2016

• Where I'm Calling From

  In the first instalment of a new column, Martha Sprackland - one of our poets-in-residence - muses on the humble...

  10th August 2016

• Snail: a poem by Martha Sprackland

  I caved him in with the heel of my shoe not quickly enough. Not the fair, conclusive smash of a...

  8th August 2016

• Addlands

  Addlands by Tom Bullough (Granta, hardback, 304 pages. Out now.) Review by Martha Sprackland Tom Bullough’s Addlands is a novel...

  12th July 2016

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