Norbert Hirschhorn takes a long cool look at a new poetry & art volume from Australia
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Leah Fritz enjoys contrasting – but equally life-embracing – collections from two Amsterdam-based poets
Ruth Valentine examines collections by Barbara Marsh, Nadine Brummer & Wendy Pratt and considers how they deal poetically with death and dying.
Merryn Williams is thankful that many poets remain unconvinced about the necessity of war and find compelling ways to say so in this new anthology
Thomas Ovans is impressed by Roger Owen’s absorbing and lucid introduction to the work of the Welsh dramatist Gwenlyn Parry
Thomas Ovans is very grateful to Paul McLoughlin and Shoestring Press for republishing some of the best work of the poet Brian Jones.
Chris Beckett is enthusiastic about poetry’s potential for exploring and explaining family history and cultural roots – and finds examples in recent collections by Nancy Mattson and Anne Ryland
Norbert Hirschhorn finds a strong and distinctive voice and character running through the new collection by Jackie Wills.
Paul McLoughlin reviews a collection set in the 1930s which recreates a lost age that was both golden and flawed.
Thomas Ovans glances back at the ITV series of Poirot adventures which recently came to an end
Thomas Ovans confronts some radical views expressed in radical verse in Steve Ely’s latest collection
Rosie Johnston is carried along by the energy and generosity of Stephen Watts’ poetry
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, Year 2014