Poetry review – A NIGHT AT THE SNOOKER: Eithne Cullen is won over by David Floyd’s dry humour and eye for the ridiculous
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Poetry review – SINGING LESSONS: James Roderick Burns finds that Matthew Barton’s New & Selected contains an impressive and comprehensive account of his poetic career
Poetry review – TALKING TO SKELETONS: Steve Komarnyckyj discovers great variety in a new collection by David Dumouriez
Poetry review – WALKING AWAY: Jean Atkin is touched by Martyn Crucefix’s gentle remembering of his ageing parents
Poetry review – A LEXICON OF LONGING: Jennifer Johnson appreciates the example set by Kevin Saving’s accomplished use of formal techniques
Poetry review – ON LOAN: Merryn Williams reviews Caroline Maldonado’s new collection of poems about life in Italy which often shine unaccustomed light on the darker aspects
Poetry review – A PREVALENCE OF ANGELS: Charles Rammelkamp finds an unusually strong sense of awe and reverence in Jennifer Barber’s poems
Poetry review – THE BEAT THE PULSE THE WAVE: Colin Pink enjoys some vivid personal memories retold as poems by Jeremy Dixon
THE PALACE OF WISDOM: Maria C McCarthy is intrigued by John O’Donoghue’s historical novel, which draws on a fictional connection between the poets Robert Lowell and John Clare
Ode to the Boy-Rabbit: Ifésinàchi Nwàdiké reviews Wayne Holloway-Smith’s RABBITBOX
Poetry review – LETTERS FOR JOHN: Alex Josephy is moved by the memories Carole Coates continues to share with her late husband
Poetry review – RENAISSANCE: Ian Pople joins in some ‘dialogues with the dead’ embodied in poems by Haris Vlavianos
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