books

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

Graham Hardie takes particular note of the wide range of the poems in a debut pamphlet by Robin Thomas.

James Roderick Burns sees Tania Hershman’s debut collection as an exploration of uncertainty.

The poems of Pauline Yarwood seem to know where they are going and Alex Josephy sets out to follow them

A new novel by John Lucas looks back in search of explanations for two sudden deaths occurring in an English village just after World War Two

Wendy French finds that Ruth Valentine’s chapbook fully meets the challenge of responding to the Grenfell Tower tragedy.