Poetry review – CROSSING THE HINGE : Nick Cooke praises Mandy Pannett for scrupulously avoiding dishonesty and self-deception in her poems about the challenges facing our world
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Poetry review – LIES BLURRING HERE: Nick Cooke looks at a new collection by Adam Piette which is concerned both with the search for clarity and the avoidance of it
Poetry review – THE ALDERBANK WADE: Nick Cooke considers a Civil War ‘novel in verse’ by Alan Morrison
Poetry review – RETURN TO SENDAI Nick Cooke takes an in-depth look at a major compilation of work by Peter Robinson
Poetry review – FRESH OUT OF THE SKY: Nick Cooke finds assured and versatile poetic craft in the latest collection by George Szirtes
Poetry review – THE DAEDALUS FILES: Nick Cooke examines Mandy Pannett’s new collection which is based upon Greek myth
Poetry review – Cargo of Limbs: Nick Cooke considers a powerful chapbook by Martyn Crucefix which focusses on the plight of refugees
Nick Cooke finds honesty and authenticity in a debut collection by Ian Humphreys
Nick Cooke follows Rachael Clyne on a poetic guided tour of her family relationships
Nick Cooke examines an ambitious biographical poem-sequence by Patricia McCarthy
Nick Cooke considers Ruth O’Callaghan’s ambitious poetic meditation on London’s immigrants
Poetry review – CANDLELIGHT: Nick Cooke enjoys the way that Sean Street’s poems play with sound as well as with the illumination implied by the title
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2026 • Tags: books, Nick Cooke, poetry