Poetry review – VELVEL’S VIOLIN: Wendy Klein reviews a collection by Jacqueline Saphra whose themes have acquired even more depth and significance in light of post-publication events
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The Prince and the Plunder. Review by Barbara Lewis. The story of Ethiopian Prince Alamayu, or Alemayehu, depending on your choice of spelling, is haunting because it could have been so different. Above all, he should never have died when and where he did.
Poetry review – DEAR RWANDA: Alwyn Marriage admires how well Isabella Mead’s poems have captured her experience of living in another country
FESTIVAL IN A BOOK: Louise Warren reviews a compilation of writing in celebration of the Wenlock Poetry Festival
Poetry review – ON BALANCE: Sultana Raza is intrigued by the underlying threads and themes in this short collection by John Harvey
Poetry review – STREET SAILING: Mat Riches notes both the craft and the construction of a collection by Matt Gilbert
Poetry review – ON EARTH, AS IT IS: Stephen Claughton finds Jane Lovell’s poems to be set firmly in the natural world and very much in sympathy with nature
John Lucas reviews new poetry collections by Alessio Zanelli and Alamgir Hashmi
Poetry review – PERISHABLE: Charles Rammelkamp reviews a collection of lyrical narratives by Stelios Mormoris
Poetry review – SIXTY POEMS: Rennie Halstead commends the diversity and range of Paul McDonald’s poetry
Poetry review – GOD’S LITTLE ARTIST: Rosie Johnston considers Sue Hubbard’s perceptive and affectionate poetic biography of the painter Gwen John
Poetry review – NOT ENOUGH RAGE – Neil Elder finds this new collection by Gram Joel Davies lives up to the aims implied by its title
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2024 1 • Tags: books, Neil Elder, poetry