{"id":5088,"date":"2016-10-31T14:30:59","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T14:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demo.wearedoubledot.com\/tseliot\/?p=180"},"modified":"2025-06-18T12:03:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T11:03:15","slug":"john-field-reviews-the-2016-t-s-eliot-prize-shortlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/john-field-reviews-the-2016-t-s-eliot-prize-shortlist\/","title":{"rendered":"John Field reviews the T. S. Eliot Prize 2016 Shortlist"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"To help readers engage fully with the T. S. Eliot Prize 2016 Shortlist, we asked poetry blogger and regular Eliot Prize reviewer John Field to explore the shortlisted titles.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In his review of Rachael Boast\u2019s Void Studies<\/em>, John Field writes, ‘Reading Void Sudies<\/em> is a sensual, sensory joy. Like music, it has a simultaneity of effect and presents memory and desire with intoxicating immediacy and authenticity.’<\/p>\n

‘[Void Studies<\/em>] is an intense, rewarding experience’, he continues. ‘It\u2019s best tackled in a few bursts \u2013 or even in a single reading \u2013 to best savour the restricted palette. To enjoy the connections between her archetypal images, it\u2019s helpful to feel the musically rhythmic thrum of her images \u2013 doors, keys, moon and river \u2013 as they pulse from poem to poem.’<\/p>\n

To read the full review of Void Studies<\/em>, and John’s analyses of all of the collections shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize, visit each of the shortlisted books pages for the 2016 Prize<\/a>. John Field blogs at\u00a0Poor Rude Lines.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To help readers engage fully with the T. S. Eliot Prize 2016 Shortlist, we asked poetry blogger and regular Eliot Prize reviewer John Field to explore the shortlisted titles. In his review of Rachael Boast\u2019s Void Studies, John Field writes, ‘Reading Void Sudies is a sensual, sensory joy. Like music, it has a simultaneity of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[34,35],"class_list":["post-5088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-34","tag-shortlist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5088"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10760,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5088\/revisions\/10760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}