Bob's Current Reading List

Letters to a Young Poet

Rainer Maria Rilke

Translated by M.D. Herter Norton

W.W. Norton and Company, London, 2004.

(Revised edition. Originally published 1934.)

Current reading

An Uncharacteristically Lengthy Poem by Dean Wilson About Interpretive Dance

Dean Wilson

DeanWorld, 2025

Date completed: 25/2/2025

Gain Access

Ian Harker

Smith | Doorstop Books, Sheffield, 2025

Pamphlet

Date Completed: 24/2/2026

House Anthems

Ralph Dartford

Valley Press, Scarborough, 2024

Date read: 20/2/2026

Wellwater

Karen Solie

Picador Poetry, London, 2025

Leeds Stanza choice, February 2026

Date Completed: 16/02/2026

My Life In Verse. A Journey Through Poetry

Edited by Alexis Kirschbaum

Penguin Classics, London, 2009

Current anthology read

The Taking Part

Joe Williams

Maytree Press

Pamphlet

Re-read: 31 January 2026

The Iliad

Homer, translated by Emily Wilson

W.W.Norton and Company, London, 2023

Leeds Stanza December 2025 / January 2026 Choice

Date Completed 16/ 01/2026

Side-eye

Matt Nicholson

Yaffle, Horsforth, 2025

Date Completed:18/12/2025

Mouth

Mona Arshi

Chatto & Windus, London, 2025

Poetry Book Society Autumn 2025 choice

Date completed: 30/11/2025

Killing the Piano

Joe Williams

Half Moon Books, Otley, 2017

Date read: 5/10/2025