Poetry review – TIPS FOR COLLECTORS OF THE MACABRE: Pat Edwards finds that Jennie E Owen can make engaging poetry out of seemingly unpromising subject matter
Poetry review – BIRDMEN AND ASTRONAUTS: Sarah Leavesley is intrigued by the layers of meaning in a new collection by Dharmavadana
Poetry review – EMERGENCY DREAM: Pat Edwards admires the way that Polly Atkin’s poetry links the personal with wider societal and global issues
Poetry review – ACCEPTING THE CALL: James Roderick Burns admires a varied but coherent first collection by Tim Dwyer
Poetry review – THE HORNED GOD: John Snelling admires the insights in this accomplished and deeply personal sequence by Bethany W. Pope
Poetry review – RAINBOW CANDLES: Jennifer Johnson appreciates the originality and positivity in Tony Challis’s debut pamphlet
Poetry review – THE ALDERBANK WADE: Nick Cooke considers a Civil War ‘novel in verse’ by Alan Morrison
Poetry review – LAMP OF WHISPERS: Charles Rammelkamp discusses a new volume of prose poems by David Giannini
How to Make a Mess. Review by Barbara Lewis. Not the Bible, not “Winnie the Pooh” not even Harry Potter – “How to Eat” was the book the loving father of Anna (played by Natasha Karp) gave to his daughter to learn to read and as a life manual.
Rocco and his Brothers. Review by Alan Price. The rupture of the family is a persistent theme in Visconti’s films. It has been called disintegration but that sounds a bit too final for me, especially in relation to Rocco and his Brothers.
Shantify. Review by Barbara Lewis. For anyone who thought the modern wave of enthusiasm for fishing songs had crested with the lockdown singing postman, “Shantify”, uttered in an awed stage whisper, is here to prove them wrong.
Poetry review – THE CHEMISTRY OF EMOTION: Madeleine O’Beirne responds to a joint collection by Fiona Perry & Stephen Paul Wren
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