Poetry review – REMEMBERING BLUE: Alex Josephy follows Colin Bell’s poetic charting of his recovery from major illness
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Poetry review – POPULAR LONGING: Charles Rammelkamp seeks out the underlying attitude which drives Natalie Shapero’s teasingly surreal poetry
Poetry review – POSTCOLONIAL LOVE POEM: Carla Scarano D’Antonio engages with Natalie Diaz’s powerful poetry which voices an Indigenous people’s resistance to oppression
Poetry review – LARKSONG STATIC: Stephen Claughton takes a journey through a selection of Martin Malone’s poems
Poetry review –THE MINISTRY OF FLOWERS: Emma Storr is pleased to have encountered this new collection by Andrea Witzke Slot
Poetry review – WHEN I THINK OF MY BODY AS A HORSE: Pat Edwards is moved by the tenderness and honesty of Wendy Pratt’s poetry.
Revolution of the Word: Brian Docherty reviews new translations of Anna Gréki’s poetry of social and political engagement
Poetry review – WILD PERSISTENCE – Kate Noakes enjoys the latest collection by Katrina Naomi
Book review – LOSER: Thomas Ovans examines John Fuller’s well-observed story of 21st century angst.
Poetry review – BEYOND THE STORM: Pat Edwards reviews a competition anthology containing some remarkable poems on an important theme
Poetry review – POMES FLIXUS: Julie Hogg admires an enchanting quality in MW Bewick’s poems
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The Florentines: From Dante to Galileo. By Paul Strathern, Published April 1, Atlantic Books. Review by Barbara Lewis.