Poetry review – RIB: Rennie Halstead admires Sharon Black’s inventive poetic exploration of many kinds of rib.
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Poetry review – AFTER: Rennie Halstead is pleased to find that Jane Routh’s ekphrastic poetry is able to stand on its own while still being true to the artworks that inspire it.
Poetry review – STONE FRUIT: Louise Warren admits to being perplexed by Rebecca Perry’s poems – but also wants to revisit them.
Poetry review – THE LIMIT OF LIGHT: PW Bridgman praises the groundedness that makes Grace Wilentz’s poetry so illuminating
Poetry review – INVISIBLE SUN: Carla Scarano D’Antonio is intrigued by unusual viewpoints in the poems of Richard Skinner
THE MIRROR & THE LIGHT. The final part of Hilary Mantel’s Cromwell trilogy came out just before the pandemic: a year later Graham Buchan looks back on the whole sequence.
SPINNING TO MARS: Charles Rammelkamp reviews a collection of flash fiction by Meg Pokrass
EURIPIDES: THE TROJAN WOMEN, A COMIC: Merryn Williams considers an unusual re-working of Euripides by Anne Carson & Rosanna Bruno
MONICA JONES, PHILIP LARKIN AND ME: Kevin Saving considers John Sutherland’s recent perspective on Philip Larkin’s love life
Poetry review – THE BATTLE OF HEPTONSTALL: Stuart Henson admires the eloquent blending of historical and contemporary in Michael Crowley’s collection
Poetry review- WHEN THE SWIMMING POOL FELL INTO THE SEA: Paul McDonald champions ‘slim volumes’ and admires the way that poems enhance one another in Carole Coates’s new collection.
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2021 • Tags: books, D A Prince, poetry • 0 Comments
Poetry review – ANCHORAGE: DA Prince is pleased to see a new collection featuring the distinctive voice of Lorraine Mariner