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
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Posts by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs:
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 – SOME DARK GOD: Rachel Jeffcoat lets Catherine Balaq’s poems take her into some intriguingly dark places
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
Poetry review – A LITTLE BRIDGE: Jennifer Johnson appreciates Alex Josephy’s poetic perspectives on bridges as connections and as ways of getting past obstacles
Poetry review – NEW & COLLECTED POEMS: Ian Pople looks back over Jeffrey Wainwright’s poetic career as summed up in this major retrospective volume
Poetry review – AFTER A SHORT ILLNESS: Sarah Leavesley admires John Whitehouse’s account of losing language as a result of a stroke – and then recovering it in new forms
Poetry review – PEDESTRIAN IN THE MULTIVERSE: John Snelling appreciates both the poetic craft and the range of subject matter in Claire Booker’s new collection
Poetry review – MILK WOOD MEMOIR: Michael Bartholomew-Biggs is charmed by Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch’s poetic exploration of the lives and times of real and imagined inhabitants of a Welsh coastal town
Poetry review – GREY TIME: Paul McDonald follows Julia Webb through a collection which explores the many aspects of loss
Poetry review – THE BEAT THE PULSE THE WAVE: Colin Pink enjoys some vivid personal memories retold as poems by Jeremy Dixon
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • added recently on London Grip, books, poetry reviews, year 2026