Michael Bartholomew-Biggs

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Peter Daniels finds that Philip Fried’s new collection displays wit, inventiveness and erudition to a degree that becomes almost daunting.

Kathryn Daszkiewicz’s new collection has a carefully worked structure and D A Prince enjoys spending time in the company of its closely-linked poems

Transforming Things Into Other Things: Paul McLoughlin examines closely what Matthew Francis has done with a Mediaeval Welsh epic

A temporary installation in Bloomsbury Square is a powerful reminder of the work of exiled Russian poets in the last century

Wendy Klein admires the craft with which John Mole makes poetry out of the deepest of feelings.

Graham Hardie browses an enjoyably varied chapbook collection from Maxine Linnell

Roger Caldwell considers an impressively substantial volume of poems by Robert Desnos with translations by Timothy Adès

John Forth investigates the thinking behind the poems in Peter Bland’s latest collection

Peter Ualrig Kennedy finds real depths in Chris Hardy’s recent collection.

Thomas Ovans looks at myth and reality as handled in a debut pamphlet from Kitty Coles

Emma Lee examines Mario Susko’s compassionate approach to poems about conflict

Thomas Ovans is surprised – but in a good way – by some subtle oddities in John Roe’s use of language