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Glyn Maxwell, Alan Gillis, Ben Wilkinson on poetic voice, formal prowess, and strange times . . . Paul Farley took the pulse at the turn of our millennium when he quipped that contemporary poets haven’t had criticism, they’ve had marketing. In an age where marketing’s role in matters aesthetic is ever-increasing, the individual voice can be an overvalued commodity, playing to a perceived appetite for poet-as-author. It is refreshing, then, to encounter Glyn Maxwell’s How the Hell Are...

Top 10: the TS Eliot Prize shortlist Each year, the T S Eliot Prize offers poets a chance to win a huge sack of cash, and critics a chance to generalise about trends in poetry. So here goes: long fragmentary narratives are in, love poems are out (though Natalie Diaz unfashionably flies the flag for sensual abandon). Who’ll win the £25,000 prize? If I were judging, it’d be Sasha Dugdale or Shane McCrae. But I’m not, so I’d bet on Diaz, with a side-flutter on Bhanu Kapil. I’m sore ab...