D A Prince enjoys two recent, and very different, small-press pamphlets from William Gilson and Siegfried Baber
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Merryn Williams responds to Alyson Hallett’s poetic account of her time as poet-in-residence at Charles Causley’s house.
John Snelling finds plenty of variety in a new chapbook by David Borrott
Anna Robinson gives a warm welcome to a recent selection of poetry by Wayne Burrows
Norbert Hirschhorn takes an in-depth look at a major New & Selected compilation of poems by Chana Bloch
Emma Lee commends Wendy Pratt’s adroit poetic handling of a painful and sensitive subject
John Lucas’s tribute to English cricketers who have stood up to the game’s authorities proves to be something much more thoughtful than a simple round-up of the ‘usual suspects’
Thomas Ovans applauds a new poetry anthology edited by Peter Kennedy – and also the motivation behind it.
Thomas Ovans is particularly impressed by a haunting quality in the poems from a new collection by Andrew Shields
John Lucas reviews a mixed bag of recent poetry collections from both sides of the Atlantic .
Anna Robinson looks at a recent anthology of poems about historical events and considers what we can learn from poetry about ways of exploring the past.
Shanta Acharya admires the development of Lance Lee’s poetic ideas and vocabulary as shown in his most recent collection
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2015