London Grip Poetry Review – Draycott
Ruth Valentine admires the subtlety of Jane Draycott’s poetic effects.
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London Grip Poetry Review – Brant
Emma Lee wonders whether the poems in Clare Brant’s new collection do full justice to the ideas she wants to explore
London Grip Poetry Review – Hogg
D A Prince reviews a debut collection by Julie Hogg in which the poems have potential for performance as well as being successful on the page.
Wordstrokes: The Poetry of Art
Playing with ‘The Rules’: Brian Docherty considers an anthology whose poems could be viewed as case studies in ekphrasis – but also as much more than that.
London Grip Poetry Review – Crowley
James Roderick Burns notes that Michael Crowley has taken some risks in order to negotiate a way through conflicting themes and historical viewpoints in his new collection
London Grip Poetry Review – Michelson
Kate Bingham praises Joan Michelson’s eye for the details of life in a retirement home.
London Grip Poetry Review – Gallagher
STILL SHINING: Brian Docherty reflects on the wealth of experience which adds extra polish to Katherine Gallagher’s poetry
Anything Can Happen
A New Life for the Riding-Crop-Handle Maker; Sarah Lawson reminds us of a popular account of an immigrant’s experience which has – perhaps undeservedly – fallen out of the public eye
London Grip Poetry Review – Daniels
A POET’S CALENDAR: Brian Docherty reviews Peter Daniels’ latest collection
Lookout: poetry from Aldeburgh Beach
Emma Lee reviews a handsome anthology of poems inspired by the South Lookout on Aldeburgh Beach
London Grip Poetry Review – Freeman
D A Prince discusses John Freeman’s direct and emotionally honest poetry
The Hazards of Looking Back: re-reading E.F. Benson’s “Colin”, by Jane McChrystal.
I usually find middle-brow fiction quite consoling. So, I turned to my bookshelves in search of something not too literary in the hope of distraction from these troubled times. Colin, a supernatural tale, published in two parts by E.F. Benson in 1923, seemed to fit the bill.