Poetry review – NEW AND SELECTED POEMS: Ian Pople considers a new selection of poems by Henri Coulette (1927-1988)
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Poetry review – TABLE, WINDOW: Mat Riches finds much to admire in this chapbook by Simon Richey
BODY AND SOUL : Michael Paul Hogan reviews an impressive and surprising dystopian novel by Andrew Hook
Poetry review – MATE ARIAS: Peter Daniels appreciates Lewis Buxton’s poems exploring some aspects of masculinity
Poetry review – ARRIVING BAREFOOTED: Stuart Henson enjoys a collection by Gwen Williams which deals with 19th century attempts to establish a new homeland for the Welsh in Patagonia
Poetry review – THE LIVES WE HAD BEFORE: Rachel Jeffcoat is impressed by the imagery and emotion in Vanessa Napolitano’s third collection
Poetry review – TRAVELLING LIGHT: Roger Elkin admires a rich collection of travel-inspired poems by Alwyn Marriage
Leon Spilliaert. Review by Barbara Lewis. Insomniac and largely self-taught artist Leon Spilliaert is the master of absence, silence and solitude. His best-known evocations of emptiness are coastal scenes in his native Ostend informed by nocturnal wandering through the deserted port.
Poetry review – INTIMATE ARCHITECTURE: Jennifer Johnson admires Tess Jolly’s adroit use of language in poems that explore memory and imagination
Poetry review – DEAD LETTERS: Rosie Johnston admires a collection of elegant and generous poems by Carole Coates
Poetry review – SUBLIME LUNGS: Paul McDonald is impressed by the powerful imagery and inventive language in this collection by Kate Noakes, which deals honestly with chronc illness
Poetry review – 55 DEVOTIONALS (AGAINST ERASURE): Peter Daniels considers Andrew McDonnell’s poems about loss and its inevitability
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • added recently on London Grip, books, poetry reviews, year 2026