In an interview Jee Leong Koh describes himself as ‘a lyric poet in an anti-lyric age’.  He goes on to criticise the lyric ‘I’ in robust, post-modern terms, while defending the lyric itself as ‘answering to some very deep human need for complex music made by the human voice.’  There is a wide variety in … Continue reading Jee Leong Koh, Steep Tea (Carcanet Press) £9.99