Poetry Review – Isabella: Julie Hogg admires Caroline Maldonado’s sensitive translations and re-telling of Isabella Morra’s story
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Poetry Review – Dad Remember You Are Dead: Alwyn Marriage reckons that Jacqueline Saphra’s new collection is a book to wake the reader up
Poetry Review – Blue Wallpaper: John Forth is impressed by the autobiographical element in Robert Hamberger’s new collection
Poetry Review – Exposure. Stephen Claughton reviews a collection by Derek Adams which sharply captures key moments in the life of photographer Lee Miller
Poetry Review – The Possibility of Innocence. Jefferson Holdridge takes a measured look at a collection of thoughtful poems by Nicholas Bielby
Poetry Review – Safety Behaviour. Maxine Linnell enjoys following Emma Jeremy’s poetic imagination
Poetry Review – The Anatomical Venus. Pat Edwards responds to Helen Ivory’s new collection which confronts historical abuses of women
Poetry Review – Aunts Come Armed with Welsh Cakes. Kate Noakes rather enjoys the contents – as well as the intriguing title – of Thirza Clout’s pamphlet collection
Poetry Review – Sightings. Mat Riches finds that Rose Cook has compressed a lot of looking at the world into one pamphlet
Emma Storr is drawn into Gareth Writer-Davies’s poetic reflections on mortality
Carla Scarano considers a dystopia convincingly described in a prose-poem sequence by Carole Coates
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Poetry Review – Morning Walk with Dead Possum, Breakfast and Parallel Universe: Alex Josephy admits that Beth Gordon’s poems makes demands on the reader but insists that they repay time and effort