Michael Loveday gets to grips with the uncertainties and instabilities underlying a new collection from Patricia Debney
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Roger Caldwell observes that James Norcliffe makes poetry look deceptively easy
Peter Ulric Kennedy critiques Derrick Buttress’ idiosyncratic poems
James Roderick Burns looks for vital signs in an anthology of medical poems
Joan Michelson picks her way through a few flower poems by Peter Phillips
Graham Hardie responds positively to the reflective and nostalgic poetry of Lynda Plater
Emma Lee takes a dip in an anthology of sea poems
Rafael Campo and Zeina Hashem Beck are two very different poets and Norbert Hirschhorn enjoys their work in different ways
Sarah Lawson plaintively asks the question: Why Don’t People Read Benito Cereno When I Tell Them To?
Rosie Johnston is impressed by Martin Figura’s boldness in applying Catastrophe Theory to the mechanics of human relationships
Brian Docherty comments on political poems from pre-WW2 Japan by Kosuke Shirasu which have recently been republished in a bi-lingual edition by Jun Shirasu and Bruce Barnes
Graham Hardie finds that the poems of Robert Wells offer some pleasing insights.
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2016 • Tags: books, Graham Hardie, poetry